adjust
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- (transitive) If you adjust something, you change it a little so that it fits or works better.
- I had to adjust the cupboard door so that is would close easily.
- (intransitive) If you adjust, you change the way you behave or think to suit a new situation.
- I had to adjust to the way of living here.
- They found it hard adjusting to life in a new country.