All 4 Uses of
adapt
in
Of Human Bondage
- But she had never been used to the management of money, and was unable to adapt her expenditure to her altered circumstances.†
Chpt 3-4 *adapt = change to fit a different situation; or make suitable
- He saw that nothing was good and nothing was evil; things were merely adapted to an end.†
Chpt 53-54
- Lynn and Sedley received fashion papers from Paris once a week and adapted the costumes illustrated in them to the needs of their customers.†
Chpt 107-108
- He remembered some of the costumes he had seen in Paris, and he adapted one of them, getting his effect from a combination of violent, unusual colours.†
Chpt 107-108
Definitions:
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(1)
(adapt as in: adapted to the new rules) changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable
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(2)
(adapted as in: the species is well adapted for) to be especially well suited or appropriate for something