adapting

Verb

adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)

1. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

   Synonyms:

   proportion

2. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
   • to adapt a story for the stage
3. (transitive) 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. (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
   • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

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