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adapt: adjust
adept: proficient

The verb adapt has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (7) adapt, accommodate -- (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country")
2. (3) adjust, conform, adapt -- (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation")

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Verb - 2 senses of adapt

Sense 1

adapt, accommodate -- (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country")
=> change, alter, vary -- (make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season")

Sense 2
adjust, conform, adapt -- (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation")
=> change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")

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Coordinate Terms: 2 senses of adapt

Sense 1

adapt, accommodate -- (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country")
-> change, alter, vary -- (make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season")
=> alternate, jump -- (go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions)
=> crackle -- (to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand")
=> modulate -- (vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves))
=> avianize, avianise -- (to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo)
=> move -- (go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy")
=> adapt, accommodate -- (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country")
=> let out, widen -- (make (clothes) larger; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight")
=> take in -- (make (clothes) smaller; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight")
=> diversify, branch out, broaden -- (vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified")
=> diversify, radiate -- (spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified")
=> specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down -- (become more special; "We specialize in dried flowers")
=> honeycomb -- (make full of cavities, like a honeycomb)
=> break -- (vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas")

Sense 2
adjust, conform, adapt -- (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation")
-> change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up -- (become or make oneself fresh again; "She freshened up after the tennis game")
=> dress, get dressed -- (put on clothes; "we had to dress quickly"; "dress the patient"; "Can the child dress by herself?")
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire -- (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts")
=> regenerate -- (undergo regeneration)
=> gel -- (become a gel; "The solid, when heated, gelled")
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise -- (become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling)
=> convert -- (change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid")
=> creolize -- (develop into a creole; "pidgins often creolize")
=> mutate -- (undergo mutation; "cells mutate")
=> have, experience -- (undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up")
=> decrepitate -- (undergo decrepitation and crackle; "The salt decrepitated")
=> suburbanize, suburbanise -- (take on suburban character; "the city suburbanized")
=> roll, roll up -- (show certain properties when being rolled; "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly")
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over -- (become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored")
=> turn, grow -- (pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry")
=> barbarize, barbarise -- (become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language)
=> alkalinize, alkalinise -- (become alkaline)
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse -- (change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern")
=> change integrity -- (change in physical make-up)
=> change shape, change form, deform -- (assume a different shape or form)
=> form -- (assume a form or shape; "the water formed little beads")
=> change state, turn -- (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election")
=> adjust, conform, adapt -- (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation")
=> rise, jump, climb up -- (rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list")
=> assimilate -- (become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant")
=> dissimilate -- (become dissimilar or less similar; "These two related tribes of people gradually dissimilated over time")
=> dissimilate -- (become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities; "These consonants dissimilate")
=> change magnitude -- (change in size or magnitude)
=> modify -- (make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage")
=> deaden -- (become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor)
=> break -- (be broken in; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress")
=> decay, crumble, delapidate -- (fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay")
=> mold, mildew -- (become moldy; spoil due to humidity; "The furniture molded in the old house")
=> hydrate -- (become hydrated and combine with water)
=> dry, dry out -- (become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun")
=> strengthen -- (gain strength; "His body strengthened")
=> distill, distil -- (undergo the process of distillation)
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce -- (to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons)
=> crack -- (break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked")
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate -- (add oxygen to or combine with oxygen)
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate -- (enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide; "This metal oxidizes easily")
=> grow -- (become attached by or as if by the process of growth; "The tree trunks had grown together")
=> mellow, melt, mellow out -- (become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed")
=> soften -- (become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it")
=> ionize, ionise -- (become converted into ions)
=> stabilize, stabilise -- (become stable or more stable; "The economy stabilized")
=> destabilize, destabilise -- (become unstable; "The economy destabilized rapidly")
=> lighten, lighten up -- (become lighter; "The room lightened up")
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color -- (change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored")
=> discolor -- (lose color or turn colorless; "The painting discolored")
=> narrow, contract -- (make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed")
=> darken -- (become dark or darker; "The sky darkened")
=> brighten, lighten -- (become brighter; "The sky brightened")
=> dim -- (become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose")
=> crack, check, break -- (become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated")
=> transpire -- (come to light; become known; "It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany")
=> resume, take up -- (return to a previous location or condition; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it")
=> change surface -- (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)
=> sublime, sublimate -- (vaporize and then condense right back again)
=> cool, cool off, cool down -- (lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably")
=> warm up -- (become more friendly or open; "She warmed up after we had lunch together")
=> warm, warm up -- (get warm or warmer; "The soup warmed slowly on the stove")
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose -- (change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle")
=> convert -- (change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief; "She converted to Buddhism")
=> dull -- (become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time")
=> complexify, ramify -- (have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions will ramify")
=> Americanize, Americanise -- (become American in character; "After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized")
=> modernize, modernise, develop -- (become technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly")
=> stiffen -- (become stiff or stiffer; "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room")
=> tighten -- (become tight or tighter; "The rope tightened")
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down -- (stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident")
=> give way, yield -- (end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram")
=> harden, indurate -- (become hard or harder; "The wax hardened")
=> harden, indurate -- (make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter")
=> suffuse -- (to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light; "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew")
=> hush -- (become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!")
=> normalize, normalise -- (become normal or return to its normal state; "Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon")
=> reorient -- (set or arrange in a new or different determinate position; "Orient the house towards the South")
=> purify -- (become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify")
=> digest -- (become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours")
=> regress -- (go back to a statistical means)
=> foul -- (become soiled and dirty)
=> decalcify -- (lose calcium or calcium compounds)
=> industrialize, industrialise -- (develop industry; become industrial; "The nations of South East Asia will quickly industrialize and catch up with the West")
=> decarboxylate -- (lose a carboxyl group; "the compound decarboxylated")
=> spot -- (become spotted; "This dress spots quickly")
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur -- (receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions")
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise -- (receive substitution of an acetyl group; "the compounds acetylated")
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take -- (take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables")
=> prim -- (assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim")
=> capacitate -- (cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg)
=> caseate -- (become cheeselike; "necrotic tissue caseates")
=> caseate -- (turn into cheese; "The milk caseated")
=> clinker -- (turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning)
=> cure -- (be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun")
=> dawn -- (become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up")
=> salinate -- (add salt to; "salinated solution")
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise -- (remove salt from; "desalinate water")
=> shallow, shoal -- (become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time")
=> steepen -- (become steeper; "The mountain side has steepened")
=> superannuate -- (become obsolete)
=> ulcerate -- (undergo ulceration; "Her stomach ulcerated")
=> vitrify -- (undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like)
=> vulcanize, vulcanise -- (undergo vulcanization; "vulcanize rubber")
=> pall, dull -- (become less interesting or attractive)
=> die, pall, become flat -- (lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall")
=> saponify -- (become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali; "the oil saponified")
=> move, go, run -- (progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting")
=> come -- (reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I came to realize the true meaning of life"; "The shoes came untied"; "come into contact with a terrorist group"; "his face went red"; "your wish will come true")
=> catch -- (be struck or affected by; "catch fire"; "catch the mood")
=> catch on -- (become popular; "This fashion caught on in Paris")
=> develop, grow -- (grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior")
=> fly -- (change quickly from one emotional state to another; "fly into a rage")
=> develop, acquire, evolve -- (gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting")
=> assibilate -- (change into a sibilant; "In the syllable /si/, the /s/ sibilates in Japanese")
=> smoothen -- (become smooth)
=> turn on -- (become hostile towards; "The dog suddenly turned on the mailman")
=> drop -- (change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon")
=> break into -- (change pace; "The dancers broke into a cha-cha"; "The horse broke into a gallop")
=> deepen, change -- (become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password")
=> concretize, concretise -- (become specific; "the idea concretized in her mind")
=> decay -- (undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated")
=> commute, transpose -- (move from one side of an equation to the other side without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other")
=> introject -- (incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously)
=> shift -- (change in quality; "His tone shifted")
=> swing -- (alternate dramatically between high and low values; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down")
=> fall -- (be cast down; "his eyes fell")
=> fall -- (assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell")
=> reflate -- (economics: experience reflation; "The economy reflated after the Fed took extreme measures")
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse -- (undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water)
=> fold, fold up -- (become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy")
=> gelatinize, gelatinise -- (become gelatinous or change into a jelly; "the starch gelatinized when it was heated")
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat -- (change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The fabric felted up after several washes")
=> recombine -- (undergo genetic recombination; "The DNA can recombine")
=> feminize, feminise -- (assume (more) feminine characteristics; "feminized language"; "feminized frogs")
=> obsolesce -- (become obsolete, fall into disuse; "This word has not obsolesced, although it is rarely used")
=> plasticize, plasticise -- (become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added)
=> recede -- (become faint or more distant; "the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older")
=> defervesce -- (experience an abatement of a fever)
=> incandesce -- (become incandescent or glow with heat; "an incandescing body")
=> calcify -- (become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks can calcify")
=> drift -- (be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward")
=> play out -- (become spent or exhausted; "The champion's strength played out fast")
=> conjugate -- (undergo conjugation)
=> isomerize, isomerise -- (change into an isomer)
=> evaporate, vaporise -- (change into a vapor; "The water evaporated in front of our eyes")
=> indurate -- (become fixed or established; "indurated customs")
=> gradate -- (pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another; "The paint on these walls gradates but you don't see it")
=> keratinize, keratinise -- (become horny and impregnated with keratin)
=> opacify -- (become opaque; "the tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and the patient may go blind")
=> mature -- (become due for repayment; "These bonds mature in 2005")
=> rejuvenate -- (develop youthful topographical features; "the land rejuvenated")
=> sequester -- (undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered")
=> transaminate -- (undergo transfer from one compound to another; "amino groups can transaminate")
=> vesiculate -- (become vesicular or full of air cells; "The organs vesiculated")
=> undulate -- (increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; "The singer's voice undulated")
=> vascularize, vascularise -- (become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids; "The egg yolk vascularized")
=> crash -- (undergo a sudden and severe downturn; "the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?")
=> professionalize, professionalise -- (become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood)
=> shift -- (change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted")
=> flip, flip out -- (go mad, go crazy; "He flipped when he heard that he was being laid off")
=> gum -- (become sticky)
=> synthesize -- (combine and form a synthesis)
=> come round, come around -- (change one's position or opinion; "He came around to our point of view")
=> promote -- (be changed for a superior chess or checker piece)
=> separate, divide, part -- (come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated")
=> format, arrange -- (set (printed matter) into a specific format; "Format this letter so it can be printed out")
=> fall for -- (fall in love with; become infatuated with; "She fell for the man from Brazil")
=> move up, rise -- (be promoted, move to a better position)
=> change posture -- (undergo a change in bodily posture)
=> settle -- (become clear by the sinking of particles; "the liquid gradually settled")
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder -- (break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice")
=> solarize, solarise -- (become overexposed; "The film solarized")
=> occult -- (become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished; "The beam of light occults every so often")
=> pass -- (transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control")
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes -- (remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes")
=> liberalize, liberalise -- (become more liberal; "The laws liberalized after Prohibition")
=> stratify -- (develop different social levels, classes, or castes; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens")
=> democratize, democratise -- (become (more) democratic; of nations)
=> relax, loosen -- (become less severe or strict; "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived")
=> reticulate -- (form a net or a network)
=> flocculate -- (form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass; "the protoplasms flocculated")
=> carbonate -- (turn into a carbonate)
=> come in -- (come into fashion; become fashionable)
=> go out -- (go out of fashion; become unfashionable)
=> stagnate -- (cause to stagnate; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters")
=> make -- (undergo fabrication or creation; "This wool makes into a nice sweater")
=> ice up, frost over, ice over -- (become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window; "When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane")