adapt
verb (used with object)
to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly.
adapted
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past participleof adapt.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof adapt.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
adaptverb (used with object)to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly.
Example Sentences
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The case has previously been adapted into Bafta winning BBC drama The Sixth Commandment, starring Timothy Spall and Anne Reid.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The company is also home to "Reese's Book Club", an online reading community whose promoted titles are sometimes adapted for the screen.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Though the New York-born filmmaker would have deplored today’s micro attention spans, his work has adapted to the 2020s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
They adapted highly accurate computational tools originally developed in quantum chemistry for describing molecules and applied them to quantum materials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
When the city was built, the brilliant early engineers had adapted these to a system of natural plumbing.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
