All 3 Uses of
adapt
in
A Separate Peace
- Right from the start, it was clear that no one had ever been better adapted to a sport than Finny was to blitzball.
p. 40..1 (definition 1) *adapted = well-suited
- It's interesting to see the way beavers adapt to the winter.
p. 95..9 (definition 2)adapt = change (to fit a different situation)
- "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.
p. 125..4 (definition 2) *adapted = changed (to fit a different situation)
Definitions:
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(1) (adapted as in: the species is well adapted for) to be especially well suited or appropriate for something
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(2) (adapt as in: adapted to the new rules) changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable