Dictionary entry details
• ADAPT (verb)
Meaning:
Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
adapt; accommodate
Context example:
Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country
Hypernyms (to "adapt" is one way to...):
alter; change; vary (make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "adapt"):
electrify; wire (equip for use with electricity)
naturalise; naturalize (adopt to another place)
Christianize (adapt in the name of Christianity)
cultivate; domesticate; naturalise; naturalize; tame (adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment)
domesticate; tame (make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans)
shoehorn; tailor (make fit for a specific purpose)
anglicise; anglicize (make English in appearance)
fit (insert or adjust several objects or people)
gear; pitch (set the level or character of)
adjust (make correspondent or conformable)
transcribe (rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
adapt; conform; adjust
Context example:
We must adjust to the bad economic situation
Hypernyms (to "adapt" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "adapt"):
readapt; readjust (adjust anew)
square (cause to match, as of ideas or acts)
obey (be obedient to)
match (be equal or harmonize)
acclimate; acclimatise; acclimatize (get used to a certain climate)
focalise; focalize; focus (become focussed or come into focus)
assimilate (become similar to one's environment)
readapt (adapt anew)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
