adapt

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To make suitable to or fit for a specific use or situation.
• intransitive verb To cause to be able to survive and reproduce under certain conditions. Used in the passive.
• intransitive verb To become adapted.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make suitable; make to correspond; fit or suit; proportion.
• To fit by alteration; modify or remodel for a different purpose: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture. To make by altering or fitting something else; produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
• Same as immunize.
• Adapted; fit; suitable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective obsolete Fitted; suited.
• transitive verb To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
• verb transitive To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
• verb transitive To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
• verb intransitive To change oneself so as to be adapted.
• adjective Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
• verb adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions