Adopt and Handle

Adopt

Adopt verb - To take for one's own use (something originated by another).

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Handle and adopt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Handle" instead a verb "Adopt".

Handle verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.

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Adopt and handle are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Adopt" instead a verb "Handle".

Nearby Words: hand, handled, handling, handler, handhold

girl	adopt girl	handle girl
life	adopt life	handle life
people	adopt people	handle people
idea	adopt idea	handle idea
Other words: number, way, technology.

They adopt different death god abilities to not only handle souls of the dead, but also to destroy demons that might interfere with those souls' passing to Purgatory.

Source: The Grim Reaper
Seeing an obviously superior weapon system in the Mauser, Springfield Armory did its best to recreate it by copying the Mauser almost wholesale apart from the furniture, exposed cocking piece, and down-turned bolt handle (a feature Mauser wouldn't adopt until the late 1920s).

Source: Cool Guns / Rifles
She doesn't speak of her captors with too much rancor as they taught her how to fight and handle explosives (in Expanded Universe material, it explains that Mandalorians tend to "adopt" children of fallen foes that have potential to join their ranks).

Source: Dark and Troubled Past

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