These are the meanings of the letters ADOPTIVO when you unscramble them.
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Adopt (v. t.)
To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
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Adopt (v. t.)
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
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Avoid (a.)
To empty.
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Avoid (a.)
To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
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Avoid (a.)
To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
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Avoid (a.)
To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
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Avoid (a.)
To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
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Avoid (a.)
To get rid of.
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Avoid (a.)
To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
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Avoid (v. i.)
To retire; to withdraw.
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Avoid (v. i.)
To become void or vacant.
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Davit (n.)
A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.
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Davit (n.)
Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.
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Divot (n.)
A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.
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Ovoid (a.)
Alt. of Ovoidal
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Ovoid (n.)
A solid resembling an egg in shape.
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Patio (n.)
A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
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Pavid (a.)
Timid; fearful.
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Pivot (n.)
A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
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Pivot (n.)
The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
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Pivot (n.)
Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
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Pivot (n.)
The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
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Pivot (v. t.)
To place on a pivot.
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Podia (pl. )
of Podium
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Vapid (a.)
Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.