Conform

/kənˈfɔːm/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, intransitive) To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, intransitive) To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
2. (intransitive, of things or procedures) To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.

Example Sentences

There is a worm by Phoebus bred, By leaves of mulberry is fed, Which unprovided where to dwell, Conforms itself to weave a cell.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

When Nos. 1870 to 1879 emerged, in 1902, the circular front windows of the cab had given place to much larger windows, conforming to the shape of the cab roof on top and the firebox top below, [...].

In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.

A judge in a Texas widow’s lawsuit over the Merck drug Vioxx reduced a $32 million jury award to about $7.75 million on Thursday so that it conformed to state law. […] But Judge Alex W. Gabert, in a Rio Grande City courtroom, ordered the punitive damage reduced to conform to a 2003 Texas law that caps punitive damages at twice the amount of economic damages — lost pay — and up to $750,000 on top of noneconomic damages.

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Word Forms

• conforms
• conforming
• conformed

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