Adapt and Put

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

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

Usage example: put the words of his patriotic poem to the tune of a well-known drinking song

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Adapt and put are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Adapt" instead a verb "Put".

Nearby Words: putting, putted

character	adapt character	put character
life	adapt life	put life
work	adapt work	put work
series	adapt series	put series
Other words: way, plan, characters, bit, times, moves.

Their ability to adapt to any environment is the only reason they're useful at all, and the Ganglion expect them to put up a fight and die.

Source: Video Game / Xenoblade Chronicles X
I Did What I Had to Do: Ever since M-Day, Scott's been put in charge of the remaining mutants, and he's had to adapt to that.

Source: Comicbook / Cyclops
The Italian movie series Fantozzi (detailing the misadventures of an Italian salaryman put Up to Eleven for comedic purpose) and the short stories that the movies adapt are really popular in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Source: Germans Love David Hasselhoff / Film

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