Adapt and Alter

adapt

Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
- usage: "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
- synonyms: accommodate
Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions.
- usage: "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
- synonyms: adjust, conform

(a.) Fitted; suited.
(v.t.) To make suitable; to fit or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

alter

Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.
- usage: "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
- synonyms: change, modify
Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.
- usage: "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"
- synonyms: change, vary
Make an alteration to.
- usage: "This dress needs to be altered"
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby.
- synonyms: interpolate, falsify
Remove the ovaries of.
- usage: "Is your cat spayed"
- synonyms: neuter, spay, castrate

(v.t.) To agitate; to affect mentally.
(v.t.) To geld.
(v.i.) To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.
(v.t.) To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(latin) alter - Another person; personality ofanother

Alter is a masculine given name