Eventually, as we know, she adopted the expedient of cutting out the words which would form the message, and addressing the letter in a disguised hand.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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— of a child : legally made the son or daughter of someone other than a biological parent
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— legally made a part of a family that is not your original family
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1 use of ‘adopted’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle