conformed

Verb

conform (third-person singular simple present conforms, present participle conforming, simple past and past participle conformed)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
   • There is a worm by Phoebus bred,
     By leaves of mulberry is fed,
     Which unprovided where to dwell,
     Conforms itself to weave a cell.c. 1710, “Vanbrugh's House”, in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, 1910 edition, Jonathan Swift
   1. (intransitive, often, transitive, with-to) To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.
      • [H]e had a dispensation for conforming in outward observances to the Protestant faith.1822, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 5–6
2. (intransitive) To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.
   • In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.1919, Hildegard G. Frey, chapter 11, in The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit