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Adapt| Verb | 1. | adapt - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"vary, alter, change - make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" adjust - make correspondent or conformable; "Adjust your eyes to the darkness" gear, pitch - set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" fit - insert or adjust several objects or people; "Can you fit the toy into the box?"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment" anglicise, anglicize - make English; "She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London" domesticate, tame - make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" Christianize - adapt in the name of Christianity; "some people want to Christianize ancient pagan sites" naturalise, naturalize - adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" electrify, wire - equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance" transcribe - rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended | | | 2. | adapt - adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" readjust, readapt - adjust anew; "After moving back to America, he had to readjust" readapt - adapt anew; "He readapted himself" assimilate - become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" match - be equal or harmonize; "The two pieces match" square - cause to match, as of ideas or acts | |
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