English-Swedish translations for adapt

• anpassa
  De har inte möjligheter att anpassa sig.They do not have the means to adapt.
  Vi bör helt enkelt anpassa oss efter naturen.We should simply adapt as nature intended.
  Den nationella lagstiftningen måste anpassas efter den.National legislation must be adapted to it.
• adaptera

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