Word relationships
Synonyms
embrace, adopt, sweep up
Local English word record
espouse
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Practice this wordExamples
- She embraced Catholicism
- They adopted the Jewish faith
Source and method
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