Adapt

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

2.VerbTo fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.

"to adapt a story for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture"

3.VerbTo make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.

"to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form"

4.VerbTo make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

"They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished."

5.AdjectiveAdapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.

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