Meaning | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Example | "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" |
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Synonym | accommodate |
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Narrower | Christianize | adapt in the name of Christianity |
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adjust | make correspondent or conformable |
anglicise, anglicize | make English in appearance |
domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame | adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment |
domesticate, tame | make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans |
electrify, wire | equip for use with electricity |
fit | insert or adjust several objects or people |
gear, pitch | Set the level or character of |
naturalize, naturalise | Adopt to another place |
shoehorn | fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited |
tailor, orient | Adjust to a specific need or market |
transcribe | rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally / originally intended |
Broader | change, alter, vary | Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics / characteristics or essence |
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Spanish | acomodar, adaptarse, adaptar, ajustar |
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Catalan | acomodar, adaptar |
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Adjectives | adaptable | capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use |
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adaptative | having a capacity for adaptation |
Nouns | adapter, adaptor | device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible |
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