(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
Parliament ~ed a resolution calling for the complete withdrawal of troops...
VERB: V n
~ion
...the ~ion of Japanese management practices by British manufacturing.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you ~ someone else’s child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter.
There are hundreds of people desperate to ~ a child...
The ~ed child has the right to see his birth certificate.
VERB: V n, V-ed, also V
~er (~ers)
A social worker is appointed to interview the prospective ~ers.
N-COUNT
~ion (~ions)
They gave their babies up for ~ion...
N-VAR