adapt

Definition

  • verb: to change your behavior so that it is easier to live in a particular place or situation
  • verb: to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification
  • usually + 'to'
  • synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate

Examples

  • The teachers 'adapted' [='modified'] the curriculum so that students of all abilities will benefit from it.

  • When children go to a different school, it usually takes them a while to 'adapt'.

  • He 'adapted' the novel for the stage. [=he rewrote the novel as a play]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) but the dregs of his jaiIs. Of the refugees that Ianded in FIorida, an estimated had criminaI records. ...they are unwiIIing to adapt to the spirit of our revoIution. We don't want them! We don't need them! MARIEL HARBOUR, CUBA AGENT : What do you caII yourseIf? (..)
    1983 Scarface