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espouse embrace adopt sweep up

Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own WordNet 3.0

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Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). Wiktionary

Accept, support, take as one’s own. Wiktionary (translation)

She embraced Catholicism WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

They adopted the Jewish faith WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up

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espouse

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