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All coopt synonyms

coΒ·opt
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verb coopt

  • homogenize β€” to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
  • appoint β€” If you appoint someone to a job or official position, you formally choose them for it.
  • name β€” a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning β€œgood news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
  • want β€” to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • cast β€” The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
  • prefer β€” to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
  • favor β€” something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
  • take β€” to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • determine β€” If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
  • judge β€” Alan L(aVern) born 1932, U.S. astronaut.
  • love β€” a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
  • designate β€” When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.
  • single out β€” only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
  • incorporate β€” to form into a legal corporation.
  • convert β€” If you convert a vehicle or piece of equipment, you change it so that it can use a different fuel.
  • absorb β€” If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in.
  • adopt β€” If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
  • accept β€” If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
  • admit β€” If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
  • include β€” to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
  • homologize β€” to make or show to be homologous.
  • sort β€” a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
  • desire β€” A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
  • predestine β€” to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
  • tap β€” Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol
  • separate β€” to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
  • glean β€” to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
  • winnow β€” to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.
  • slot β€” a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
  • fancy β€” imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
  • wish β€” to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
  • will β€” Wallace, 1875–1959, U.S. journalist and humorist.
  • crave β€” If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
  • tag β€” a children's game in which one player chases the others in an effort to touch one of them, who then takes the role of pursuer.
  • finger β€” any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • weigh β€” to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
  • cull β€” If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
  • co-opt β€” If you co-opt someone, you persuade them to help or support you.
  • bring in β€” When a government or organization brings in a new law or system, they introduce it.
  • take in β€” the act of taking.
  • bring into line β€” a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • draw in β€” to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
  • take over β€” the act of taking.
  • call for β€” If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
  • tab β€” ht
  • take up β€” the act of taking.
  • see fit β€” to consider proper, desirable, etc
  • set aside β€” the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
  • make up one's mind β€” (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
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