| Main Entry: | adopt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choose or take something as one's own |
Synonyms: |
accept, adapt, affiliate, affirm, appropriate, approve, assent, assume, borrow, embrace, endorse, espouse, follow, go down the line, go in for, imitate, maintain, mimic, opt, ratify, seize, select, support, take on, take over, take up, tap, use, utilize |
Antonyms: |
disown, leave alone, reject, repudiate, repulse |
| Main Entry: | annex |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | join or add |
Synonyms: |
adjoin, affix, append, appropriate, associate, attach, connect, fasten, hitch on, hitch up, hook on, hook up, link, slap on, subjoin, tack on, tag, tag on, take on, take over, unite |
Antonyms: |
detach, leave off, leave out |
| Main Entry: | appropriate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
Synonyms: |
annex, borrow, clap, confiscate, cop, embezzle, filch, get fingers on, get hands on, glom on to, grab, grab hold of, hijack, liberate, lift, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, pilfer, pocket, secure, snatch, swipe, take over, usurp |
Antonyms: |
bequeath, bestow, give, return |
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take, undertake |
Synonyms: |
accept, acquire, appropriate, arrogate, attend to, begin, confiscate, don, embark upon, embrace, enter upon, seize, set about, take on, take over, take up |
| Notes: | assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case' |
Antonyms: |
not do |
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adopt, acquire |
Synonyms: |
annex, appropriate, arrogate, borrow, clap hands on, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, get fingers on, get hands on, glom onto, grab, grab hold of, hijack, kipe, liberate, moonlight requisition, preempt, seize, snatch, swipe, take over, usurp |
Antonyms: |
leave, let alone, not take |
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rule, have power |
Synonyms: |
administer, boss, charge, check, coach, coerce, compel, conduct, conquer, constrain, control, curb, determine, dictate, direct, dominate, domineer, exact, exercise power, force, govern, guide, have authority, head, hinder, hold office, influence, lead, manage, officiate, oppress, overbear, override, predominate, prescribe, preside over, prevail, push, regulate, reign, reign over, repress, restrain, run, stop, subdue, superintend, supervise, sway, take over, tyrannize, wield |
Antonyms: |
follow |
| Main Entry: | confiscate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal; seize |
Synonyms: |
accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, commandeer, confisticate, expropriate, glom on to, grab, hijack, impound, liberate, moonlight requisition, possess oneself of, preempt, sequester, sequestrate, swipe, take, take over, usurp |
Antonyms: |
give, offer |
| Main Entry: | co-opt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to assimilate in order to take over or appropriate |
Synonyms: |
absorb, accept, admit, adopt, bring in, bring into line, bring into the fold, connaturalize, convert, draw in, elect, embrace, encompass, enfold, homogenize, homologize, include, incorporate, make one's own, take in, take over |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fill in for, compensate |
Synonyms: |
balance, counterbalance, double for, insure, make good, make up for, offset, relieve, stand in for, substitute, take over, take the rap for |
| Main Entry: | displace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove from position of responsibility |
Synonyms: |
banish, can*, cashier, cut out, deport, depose, dethrone, discard, discharge, discrown, disenthrone, dismiss, disthrone, exile, expatriate, fire, oust, relegate, remove, replace, sack, step into shoes of, succeed, supersede, supplant, take over, take the place of, transport, uncrown, unmake, usurp |
Antonyms: |
leave |