adapt

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 7.31 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
2. verb To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.

   to adapt a story for the stage

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

   to bring out a play adapted from the French

4. verb To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

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

5. adjective Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.

Similar words

accommodate conform adjust rewrite transcribe embrace espouse sweep up adaptation adaptive

Often followed by

to the themselves their itself it and them himself

Word family

adaptability adaptable adaptation adaptations adapted adaptedness adaptednesses adapting adaptive adapts