Adapt

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /əˈdæpt/
• Rhymes: -æpt

Origin

From Middle French adapter, from Latin adaptare ("to fit to"), from ad ("to") + aptare ("to make fit"), from aptus ("fit"); see apt.

Full definition of adapt

Verb

1. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
2. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
3. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
4. (intransitive) To change oneself so as to be adapted.They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

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Adjective

1. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.