Definition of "adapts" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adapt. (verb)

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• "Our immune system "adapts" to the invading pathogens and "evolves" to fight them, such that when it encounters a biologically similar pathogen (which itself may have evolved) it has in its armory the weapons needed to fight it."
• "Page 60: The term 'adap s' is a typo for 'adapts'."
• "An equally great fact is continuity, and it may well be that one "adapts" more successfully to certain realities by resisting them than by capitulating to them."