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 accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from.
To implement, to employ, to put into use.
To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class.
To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis.
To occupy; to consume (space or time).
Synonym of take in (“tighten a belaying rope”)
To resume.
To pick up.
To address (an issue).
To shorten by hemming.