All 10 Uses of
adapt
in
Bleak House
- I was so adapted to the routine of Greenleaf before long that I seemed to have been there a great while and almost to have dreamed rather than really lived my old life at my godmother's.†
Chpt 1-3
- Stationed in a waggon on this lawn, now, which, from the shape of the land, is naturally adapted to a public meeting, he would improve almost any occasion you could mention for hours and hours!†
Chpt 7-9
- That I was inexperienced in the art of adapting my mind to minds very differently situated, and addressing them from suitable points of view.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- But I never heard that it had been anybody's business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to HIM.†
Chpt 13-15
- HE had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection that if he had remained at school until he was of age, I suppose he could only have gone on making them over and over again unless he had enlarged his education by forgetting how to do it.†
Chpt 13-15
- He said, Well, it was really very pleasant to see how things lazily adapted themselves to purposes.†
Chpt 13-15
- "And now," pursued Mrs. Badger, "now that I am the wife of my dear third, Mr. Badger, I still pursue those habits of observation which were formed during the lifetime of Captain Swosser and adapted to new and unexpected purposes during the lifetime of Professor Dingo.†
Chpt 16-18
- At once a child, an elder girl, and the little woman I had been so happy as, I was not only oppressed by cares and difficulties adapted to each station, but by the great perplexity of endlessly trying to reconcile them.†
Chpt 34-36
- Mr. Rouncewell is perfectly good-humoured and polite, but within such limits, evidently adapts his tone to his reception.†
Chpt 46-48
- In his fondness for society and his adaptability to all grades, Mr. Bucket is presently standing before the hall-fire—bright and warm on the early winter night—admiring Mercury.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(adapt as in: adapted to the new rules) changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable