Accommodate

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To have enough space for: synonym: contain.
  • intransitive verb. To provide lodging for.
  • intransitive verb. To take into consideration or make adjustments for; allow for.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To do a favor or service for; oblige. synonym: oblige.
  • intransitive verb. To provide for; supply with something needed.
  • intransitive verb. To make suitable; adapt or adjust: synonym: adapt.
  • intransitive verb. To adapt oneself; become adjusted.
  • intransitive verb. To become adjusted, as the eye to focusing on objects at a distance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Suitable; fit; adapted; accommodated.
  • To make suitable, correspondent, or consistent; fit; adapt: as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances; to accommodate the choice of subjects to the occasion; to accommodate a Latin word, in form or use, to English analogies.
  • To show fitness or agreement in; reconcile, as things which are at variance or which seem inconsistent; bring into harmony or concord: as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
  • To adjust; settle: as, to accommodate differences.
  • To supply or furnish; provide with certain conveniences; give accommodation to: as, my house can accommodate a large number of guests: followed by with when what is supplied is expressly mentioned: as, to accommodate a man with apartments; to accommodate a friend with money.
  • To suit; serve; convenience; oblige; do a kindness or favor to: as, he is always delighted to accommodate a friend.
  • Synonyms To suit, adapt, fit, conform, adjust, reconcile.
  • To furnish, supply, provide for.
  • To serve, oblige, assist, aid.
  • To be conformable; specifically, in physiology, to be in or come to adjustment. See accommodation, 4 .
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
  • transitive verb. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform.
  • transitive verb. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle
  • transitive verb. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige.
  • transitive verb. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc..
  • adjective. Suitable; fit; adapted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
  • verb. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
  • verb. To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
  • verb. To do a favor or service for; to oblige;
  • verb. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
  • verb. To give consideration to; to allow for.
  • verb. To contain comfortably; to have space for.
  • verb. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
  • adjective. Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. provide with something desired or needed
  • verb. have room for; hold without crowding
  • verb. be agreeable or acceptable to
  • verb. provide housing for
  • verb. make (one thing) compatible with (another)
  • verb. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
  • verb. provide a service or favor for someone
  • Word Usage
    "When a party of the Shays rebels came to the house of General Pomeroy, in Northampton, and asked if he could accommodate them, -- the old soldier, seeing the green sprigs in their hats, the badges of their treason, shouted to his son, "Fetch me my hanger, and I'll _accommodate_ the scoundrels!""
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    abide by  cater  comply  conform to  fit  
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    Seat  house  sleep  
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