adjust
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- v alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- v place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- v adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
We must adjust to the bad economic situation - v make correspondent or conformable
- v decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
- Slaughterhouse-Five: For Vonnegut, man's worst folly is a persistent attempt to adjust, smoothly, rationally, to the unthinkable.
- After a few beers on the couch in his apartment in Hong Kong's Wanchai district, Fai stands up to adjust his carefully unkempt clothesgray T shirt and navy cotton flat-front .
- Can children constrained to such a stunted sphere adjust to the world's cacophony? And what can modern science and medicine do to help? The condition of the oldest child, Kerstin .