Adapt and Harden

Adapt

Adapt verb - To change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation.

Usage example: it always takes freshmen a little while to adapt themselves to high school

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Harden and adapt are semantically related In some cases you can use "Harden" instead a verb "Adapt".

Harden verb - To make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure.

Usage example: pioneer women who had been hardened by years of living on the plains

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Adapt and harden are semantically related in accustom topic. Sometimes you can use "Adapt" instead a verb "Harden".

Nearby Words: hard, hardness, hardening, hardener

Being forced into slavery and having to adapt to the brutal Fallaji culture hardens Mishra into a ruthless warlord and years of war against his brother harden Urza likewise.

Source: Literature / The Brothers' War

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