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2. to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.
4. to make larger; increase in extent, bulk, or quantity; add to.
5. to ensure observance of or obedience to.
8. to secure or guarantee.
10. to increase in intensity, magnitude, etc.
13. adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result.
14. greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense.

1. conferring new legal powers or capacities, especially by removing a disability; having the right to license or regulate.
3. to encipher or encode.
4. an article in a newspaper or other periodical presenting the opinion of the publisher, editor, or editors.
5. to remove or get rid of, especially as being in some way undesirable.
6. the period of time for which one is committed to military service.
7. to make into an act or statute.
9. serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous.
11. to make into an act or statute.
12. to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register.