adapt
/əˈdæpt/ verbe B1En français : adapter, s'adapter
- 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 adapt a story for the stage· to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture
- To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character. · to bring out a play adapted from the French· a word of an adapted form
- To make oneself comfortable to a new thing. · They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
He/she/it adapts · Prétérit adapted · Participe passé adapted · Forme en -ing adapting
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Dans la bibliothèque
de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one’s spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters.”
“They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time; and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible.”
The children, two girls of six and eight years old, and two younger boys, were to be left under the particular care of their cousin Jane, who was the general favourite, and whose steady sense and sweetness of temper exactly adapted her for attending to them in every way--teaching them, playing with them, and loving them.
She could not determine how her mother would take it; sometimes doubting whether all his wealth and grandeur would be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man; but whether she were violently set against the match, or violently delighted with it, it was certain that her manner would be equally ill adapted to do credit to her sense; and she could no more bear that Mr.
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