adjust

1. (transitive) To modify.Examples: "Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate."; "As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one."Synonyms: change, edit, modify, set, measuretransitive

2. (transitive) To improve or rectify.Examples: "He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data."; "But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short."transitive

3. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.transitive

4. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.Examples: "Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community."; "She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness."intransitive