adjust
/əˈd͡ʒʌst/ verb A2- To modify. · Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
- To improve or rectify. · He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
- To settle an insurance claim.
- To change to fit circumstances. · Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.· She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
Plural adjust · He/she/it adjusts · Past adjusted · Past participle adjusted · -ing form adjusting
Verb forms
- Base form
- adjust
- He/she/it
- adjusts
- Past
- adjusted
- Past participle
- adjusted
- -ing form
- adjusting
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“It is more than ever a settled thing,” said Lucien,—and, considering that this remark was all that he was at that time called upon to make, he adjusted the glass to his eye, and biting the top of his gold headed cane, began to make the tour of the apartment, examining the arms and the pictures.
The double valves with the automatic self-adjusting slots are drawn in one of the papers which have been returned.
“While Mary is adjusting her ideas,” he continued, “let us return to Mr.
Franz adjusted his telescope, and directed it towards the yacht.
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