Dictionary

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

Example: to adapt a story for the stage

To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character

Example: a word of an adapted form

To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

Example: They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

Having been subject to an alteration or change to fit a different circumstance or medium.

Example: That movie was an adapted novel.