Verb: adapt u'dapt
- Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
"Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country";
- accommodate
- Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
"We must adapt to the bad economic situation";
- adjust, conform
Derived forms: adapted, adapting, adapts
Type of: alter, change, get used to, vary
Encyclopedia: Adapt