All coopt synonyms
coΒ·opt
C c 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 βgood news,β 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, 1875β1959, 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.