Usage | adapt and adopt |
Adapt and adopt sound similar and have similar meanings, but be careful not to confuse them. When you adapt something, you change it to make it fit your purpose: Gilberto tried to adapt the recipe to cook a fish instead of a chicken-what a mistake! When you adopt something, you use it unchanged: Lucas adopted his boss's technique for dealing with rude customers-he ignored them! |
Thesaurus | adapt Also look up: |
VERB. | acclimate, adjust, conform 1 modify, revise 2 |
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