English-Dutch translations for adapt

• aanpassen
  We moeten ons gewoon aanpassen aan de natuur. We should simply adapt as nature intended.
  Het is echter niet alleen Turkije dat zich moet aanpassen. However, it is not only Turkey that has to adapt.
  Elke lidstaat is bezig met het aanpassen van de zorgsystemen. Every Member State is adapting their care systems.
• bewerken
• adapteren

Definition of adapt

• To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
• To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
• To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
• To make oneself comfortable to a new thing
• Adapted; fit; suited; suitable

Examples

• to adapt a story for the stage
• to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture
• to bring out a play adapted from the French
• a word of an adapted form
• They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

Related words

• adapter
• unadaptable
• adaptation
• maladaptive
• adapted
• adaptable
• adaptability
• adapting
• adaption