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
Prime
Prime verb - Cover with a primer; apply a primer to.
Both words in one sentence
- In Metroid Prime you can kill it with plasma with the Plasma beam, and adapt the beam into a veritable flamethrower as well (sapping away your missiles in the process).
Source: Kill It With Fire / Video Games - Starting with Eden Prime, the Geth adapt their armor to be more plasma-resistant.
Source: Fanfic / XCOM Second Contact -
Justified in that Metroids will grow and adapt differently depending on what planet they're on, and all of the experiments with Phazon have done really odd things to their physiology, leaving the non-SR388 strains in the Prime trilogy with less defense against non-cold weaponry.
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