To select and take or approve.
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
To be repudiated.
To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).