Lemmas found: 38
To become legally joined to someone as a spouse.
To legally take another person’s child into one’s family and raise the child as one’s own.
To take up, accept, or begin to use a plan, method, policy, practice, or idea.
To formally approve or enact a proposal, resolution, or document.
To be in charge of and direct the work or activities of a person, team, business, or organization.
To come after someone or something in a position, office, or role, often by taking their place.
To choose or officially name someone for a job, position, or responsibility.
To choose someone for a position or office by voting.
In association football, to send a player off is to show them a red card and order them to leave the field for the rest of the match.
In chess, to move the king two squares toward a rook and then move that rook to the square the king crossed, as one move.
In chess, to move a piece from its starting square to a more active square, bringing it into play.
In chess, to promote is to move a pawn to the farthest rank and replace it with a queen, rook, bishop, or knight of the same color.
In tennis, to break is to win a game while the opponent is serving.
In baseball, to steal is to advance to the next base while the pitcher is delivering the ball, without the batter hitting it.
In baseball, to tag a runner is to touch the runner with the ball or a glove holding the ball to put the runner out.
In card play, to divide the deck into two parts and place one part on top of the other in the opposite order.
To distribute playing cards to the players, usually one at a time and according to the rules of the game.
In a card game, to discard is to put down or remove a card you do not want, usually as part of your turn.
In cricket, to bowl is to deliver the ball toward the batter by making a legal bowling action.
In cricket, to end a team's innings voluntarily before all its batters are out, so the opposing team can begin batting.
In cricket, to stump a batter is to dismiss them when they are out of their ground by having the wicketkeeper put down the wicket with the ball.
To make a checkers or draughts piece a king by placing a second piece on top of it.
In checkers or draughts, to remove an opponent's piece that failed to make a required capture.
In checkers, to capture an opponent’s piece by moving a piece diagonally over it to an empty square beyond.
In Go, to pass is to decline to place a stone on your turn.
In a card game, to play a card of the same suit as the card led in the trick, when able or required to do so.
To play the first card of a trick in a card game.
In a card game, to decline to make a bid when it is your turn to bid.
In a card game, to double an opponent’s double of one’s bid, increasing the stakes or scoring value again.
In a card game, to fail to follow the suit led when you have a card of that suit.
In poker, to match the current bet so you can continue playing the hand.
In poker, to decline to bet while keeping your hand in play, when no bet is required to call.
To give up a poker hand and stop competing for the pot.
In poker, to increase the amount of the current bet that players must match to continue in the hand.
In gymnastics, to stick is to land a dismount or tumbling pass and hold the landing without moving the feet.
To remove a checker from the board in backgammon when it is in the player's home board and the player is bearing off.
In backgammon, to offer to double the stakes by presenting the doubling cube to the opponent, who must accept the higher stakes or concede the game.
In backgammon, to land a checker on a point occupied by a single opposing checker, sending that checker to the bar.