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单词 adopting
释义 I. adopting, vbl. n.|əˈdɒptɪŋ|
[f. adopt + -ing1.]
A choosing or taking as one's own, or into any relationship, esp. as a child; adoption.
1591Percyvall Sp. Dict., Ahijamiento, adopting, adoptatio.1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 313 That was the only adopting I ever heard of: and the child was transported when it was twenty-three.
II. adopting, ppl. a.|əˈdɒptɪŋ|
[f. adopt + -ing2.]
That adopts.
1717Lady M. W. Montague Lett. 47 II. 44 The adopting fathers are generally very tender to these children.1850L. Hunt Autobiog. xv. (1860) 238 Torn from the arms of her adopting father.
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