v.
1.choose and follow
2.take up and practice as one's own
3.take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
4.take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
5.take into one's family
6.put into dramatic form
7.take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Idiom of the Day
strike out at (someone or something)
to hit at or attack someone or something
The boy struck out at his friend in the playground.