v. To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.v. 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.v. 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.v. To change oneself so as to be adapted.adj. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.