Usually means: Change to suit new conditions.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word adapt:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. adapt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adapt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adapt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adapt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adapt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adapt, adapt, adapt: Wordnik
  7. adapt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adapt: Wiktionary
  9. adapt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adapt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adapt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adapt, adapt: Dictionary.com
  13. adapt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adapt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ADAPT, Adapt (album), Adapt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adapt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adapt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. adapt: Rhymezone
  19. adapt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adapt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. adapt: Free Dictionary
  22. adapt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. adapt: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. adapt: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. adapt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. adapt: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ADAPT: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ADAPT: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adapt: Africa Glossary
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. ADAPT: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. adapt: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adapt: Evolution Glossary

(Note: See adapted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
verb:  (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
verb:  (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
verb:  (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
adjective:  Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

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