accommodate
/əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/ verb B2- To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt. · to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
- To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile. · to accommodate differences
- To provide housing for. · to accommodate an old friend for a week
- To provide sufficient space for.
- To contain comfortably; to have space for. · This venue accommodates three hundred people.
- To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient. · to accommodate a friend with a loan
- To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
- To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc. · to accommodate prophecy to events
He/she/it accommodates · Past accommodated · Past participle accommodated · -ing form accommodating
Verb forms
- Base form
- accommodate
- He/she/it
- accommodates
- Past
- accommodated
- Past participle
- accommodated
- -ing form
- accommodating
From the library
Now he considered that it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him.
That done, we gradually began to settle down and to accommodate ourselves to our new surroundings.
“The practice is quiet,” said I, “and I have an accommodating neighbour.
There are as many elixirs of every kind as there are caprices and peculiarities in the physical and moral nature of humanity; and I will say further—the art of these chemists is capable with the utmost precision to accommodate and proportion the remedy and the bane to yearnings for love or desires for vengeance.”
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