All 6 Uses

adapt
in
Life of Pi
(Edited)

Everything in an enclosure must be just right—in other words, within the limits of the animal's capacity to adapt.
Chpt 9-12 *

adapt = adjust (to fit a different situation)
Wild animals that are captured when they are fully mature are another example of escape-prone animals; often they are too set in their ways to reconstruct their subjective worlds and adapt to a new environment.
Chpt 9-12

adapt = adjust to fit
But even animals that were bred in zoos and have never known the wild, that are perfectly adapted to their enclosures and feel no tension in the presence of humans, will have moments of excitement that push them to seek to escape.
Chpt 9-12

adapted = adjusted
This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt.
Chpt 9-12

adapt = change to fit a different situation
Well then: they are amazingly adaptable.
Chpt 57-60

adaptable = capable of changing to fit a different situation

standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances—solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing where Mecca was and getting my Arabic wrong.
Chpt 73-76

adapted = changed to fit into the situation

Definitions:

(1) (adapt as in: adapted to the new rules)
changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable
(2) (adapted as in: the species is well adapted for)
to be especially well suited or appropriate for something
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)