What does adjust mean?
Adjust means (transitive) To modify..
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/əˈd͡ʒʌst/ · verb
(transitive) To modify..
Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.
She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
Use adjust when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adjust means (transitive) To modify..
Common synonyms include change, edit, modify, set.
Possible antonyms include skew.
Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
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