Adapt
Adapt verb - To change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation.
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- Also, the size of the boilers matched up nicely with the reactors that the Navy had already been building for submarines, meaning it was much simpler to adapt than to create a massive new reactor (which they later did).
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It should be pointed out that the Square/Cube Law may have been somewhat averted in this particular movie because Scott Carey very slowly shrinks, thus giving his body a chance to adapt to his changing size.
Source: Incredible Shrinking Man - To be immobilized by his fat at that size, he would probably have needed to eat SO much that he gained weight too quickly for his body to adapt, for a long period of time, and intentionally compensated for it with antigravs rather than making any effort to carry his own bulk.
Source: Fat Bastard / Literature
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