n.: make choice of, mark down, elect, designate, pick on sb., has chosen
v.: choose, fix
vt.: adopt
Thesaurus
acknowledge, ascertain, accept, undertake, approve, receive, adoption, adopt, adopt, assumption, adopt, adopt, deem, ascertain, ascertain, incept, take sb into one's family, esp as one's child or heir, designate, certainly, affirm, brief, state or order sth with the force of authority, official on (the) orders of, official instruction, resolve, sth, survey, dissection, acquisition, exploration, witness, acceptance, checking, accept, accept, approach, research, allot, prearrange, build, explain, learn, study and read intensively, study, substantiate, will, acceptance, Resolve Yaozuo bombshell