Verb

• (3)S: (v) adopt, follow, espouse (choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans) "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
• S: (v) marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse (take in marriage)
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• S: (v) espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own) "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"