Adapt

Quick meaning: Adapt is a verb meaning (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

Meaning

(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
2. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
3. (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
4. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.

Example Sentences

a word of an adapted form

to adapt a story for the stage

to bring out a play adapted from the French

to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture

Word Forms

• adapts
• adapting
• adapted

Synonyms for adapt

Depending on context, synonyms include proportion, embrace, accommodate, conform, espouse, adjust.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include accommodate, conform, adjust, rewrite, transcribe, embrace.

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