adapt
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(verb) make fit or tailor something to something; "Words accommodate their meanings to other words in the same sentence" |
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Synonyms: accommodate |
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Related Words: adjust, alter, anglicise, anglicize, change, cultivate, domesticate, electrify, fit, gear, naturalize, pitch, shoehorn, tailor, vary, wire |
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(verb) get accustomed or used (to something); "We never adapted to life in the U.S." |
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Synonyms: adjust |
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Related Words: acclimate, acclimatize, change |
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(verb) rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose; "adapt a play for use in schools" |
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Synonyms: rewrite |
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Related Words: compose, indite, pen, write |
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(verb) rewrite a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended; arrange |
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Synonyms: transcribe |
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Related Words: arrange, set |
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(verb) adapt or conform oneself; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" |
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Synonyms: adjust, conform |
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Related Words: assimilate, change, focus, match, obey, readapt, readjust, square |
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(verb) take up the cause or ideology of (beliefs, tasks, etc.) |
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Synonyms: embrace, espouse, sweep up |
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Related Words: accept, fasten on, hook on, latch on, seize on, take up |
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