Embrace as one's own
The crossword clue "Embrace as one's own" is answered by ADOPT, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ADOPT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADOPT answer page.
Used 16 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ADOPT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ADOPT, most used first.
- Take as one's own - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Take on - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Take in - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Vote to accept - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- Assume - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Make one's own - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Ratify - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Take up - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Espouse - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Embrace - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Take under one's wing - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Add to the family - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Rescue from a shelter - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Take into one's family - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Get a pet from a shelter - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Start using - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Take in, as a stray - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Take in from a pet shelter - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Take up, as a cause - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- On one's toes - ALERT, used 150 times
- Blow one's top - ERUPT, used 95 times
- Light on one's feet - AGILE, used 84 times
- Own up to - ADMIT, used 66 times
- Speak one's mind - OPINE, used 54 times
- Got to one's feet - STOOD, used 45 times
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