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adapt
Overview of verb adapt
The verb adapt has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (7) adapt, accommodate -- (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country")
2. (3) adjust, conform, adapt -- (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation")
Grep of noun adapt
adaptability
adaptation
adapter
adaption
adaptive radiation
adaptor
Antonyms of verb adapt
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb adapt
2 senses of adapt
Sense 1
adapt, accommodate
=> change, alter, vary
Sense 2
adjust, conform, adapt
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb adapt
2 senses of adapt
Sense 1
adapt, accommodate
=> adjust
=> gear, pitch
=> fit
=> anglicise, anglicize
=> shoehorn, tailor
=> domesticate, tame
=> domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame
=> Christianize
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> electrify, wire
=> transcribe
Sense 2
adjust, conform, adapt
=> readjust, readapt
=> readapt
=> assimilate
=> focus, focalize, focalise
=> acclimatize, acclimatise, acclimate
=> match
=> obey
=> square
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb adapt
2 senses of adapt
Sense 1
adapt, accommodate
=> change, alter, vary
Sense 2
adjust, conform, adapt
=> change
'Cause To' of verb adapt
Derived Forms of verb adapt
2 senses of adapt
Sense 1
adapt, accommodate
RELATED TO>(adj) adaptative#1
=> adaptive, adaptative
RELATED TO>(adj) adaptable#1
=> adaptable
RELATED TO>(noun) adaptor#1
=> adapter, adaptor
RELATED TO>(noun) adapter#2
=> adapter, adaptor
Sense 2
adjust, conform, adapt
RELATED TO>(adj) adaptive#1
=> adaptive, adaptative
RELATED TO>(adj) adaptable#1
=> adaptable
RELATED TO>(noun) adaptation#2
=> adaptation, adaption, adjustment
RELATED TO>(noun) adaption#1
=> adaptation, adaption, adjustment
Domain of verb adapt
Domain Terms of verb adapt
Familiarity of verb adapt
adapt used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb adapt
2 senses of adapt
Sense 1
adapt, accommodate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
adjust, conform, adapt
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s PP
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb adapt
2 senses of adapt
Sense 1
adapt, accommodate
> change, alter, vary
=> alternate, jump
=> crackle
=> modulate
=> avianize, avianise
=> move
=> adapt, accommodate
=> let out, widen
=> take in
=> diversify, branch out, broaden
=> diversify, radiate
=> specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
=> honeycomb
=> break
Sense 2
adjust, conform, adapt
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb adapt
Sense 1
adapt, accommodate
=> change, alter, vary
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Sense 2
adjust, conform, adapt
=> change
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Grep of verb adapt
adapt
readapt
Grep of adj adapt
adaptable
adaptational
adaptative
adapted
adaptive
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