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1 —as in:
adapted to the new rules

Definition

changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable

This passage is adapted from Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man ©1952.

adapted = changed (to fit this situation)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

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adapted = changed (to fit this situation)

How will people adapt as computers and robots do more of the work people used to do?

adapt = change (for the different situation)

The farm is adapting crop selection in response to global warming.

adapting = changing (for a different situation)

That was the year she adapted the first Harry Potter book into a screenplay for the movie.

adapted = changed (to fit a different situation)

I like the U.S., but am still adapting to my adopted country.

adapting = adjusting (changing for a new situation)

The car adapts to different road conditions.

adapts = adjusts (changes to fit different situations)

The truck pulls up beside an odd bus that has been adapted into a bunker of sorts, with steel plates nailed across the window frames.
Heather Morris -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz

adapted = changed

"Take the housefly. If it hadn't developed all those split-second reflexes it would have become extinct long ago."
"You mean it adapted itself to the fly swatter?" queried Phineas.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

adapted = changed (to fit a different situation)

Had we gone into the trenches without this period of training most of us would certainly have gone mad. Only thus were we prepared for what awaited us. We did not break down, but adapted ourselves;
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

adapted = changed to fit a different situation

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2 —as in:
especially well adapted for

Definition

to be especially well suited or appropriate for something

Penguins are especially well adapted for cold weather.

well adapted = well suited

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The human spine is not as well adapted to walking upright as we would like.

well adapted = well suited

After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters being well adapted to this task.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

well adapted = well suited

Right from the start, it was clear that no one had ever been better adapted to a sport than Finny was to blitzball.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

adapted = well-suited

His integrity was perfect; it was a law of nature with him, rather than a choice or a principle.... I had met with a person thoroughly adapted to the situation which he held.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

adapted = suited

The Warden was a blond and brachycephalic Alpha-Minus, short, red, moon-faced, and broad-shouldered, with a loud booming voice, very well adapted to the utterance of hypnopaedic wisdom.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

well adapted = well suited

Mrs. Rushworth acknowledged herself very desirous that her son should marry, and declared that of all the young ladies she had ever seen, Miss Bertram seemed, by her amiable qualities and accomplishments, the best adapted to make him happy.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

adapted = well-suited

It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

adapted = suitable

It had the graveyard, originally Isaac Johnson's home-field, on one side, and so was well adapted to call up serious reflections, suited to their respective employments, in both minister and man of physic.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

well adapted = well suited

You will supply the rest; and a most fortunate man he is to attach himself to such a creature—to a woman who, firm as a rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapted to recommend them.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

well adapted = well suited

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