Both Uses
adapt
in
The Looking Glass Wars
(Edited)
- Those who had entered a little too quickly into the carnage and destruction had trouble adapting to life during peacetime.
p. 9.5adapting = changing (to fit a situation)
- --but so well had she adapted to the customs and beliefs of the time, so well had she adopted the inclinations of other girls her age, that she'd befriended those who used to tease her mercilessly.
p. 162.6 *adapted = changed to fit
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)