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Adjust Adjusted Alter Clothing Machine Correct Position Setting

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If you a_____ something such as your clothing or a machine, you correct or alter its position or setting .If you adjust something such as your clothing or a machine, you correct or alter its position or setting .
She adjusted her head scarf fussily.
Liz adjusted her mirror and then edged the car out of its parking bay.
word adjust
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verb
When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas .
We have been preparing our fighters to adjust themselves to civil society.
I felt I had adjusted to the idea of being a mother very well.
It has been hard to adjust but now I'm getting satisfaction from my work.
If you adjust something, you change it so that it is more effective or appropriate .
To attract investors, the government has adjusted its tax and labour laws.
If you adjust something such as your clothing or a machine, you correct or alter its position or setting .
She adjusted her head scarf fussily.
Liz adjusted her mirror and then edged the car out of its parking bay.
If you adjust your vision or if your vision adjusts, the muscles of your eye or the pupils alter to cope with changes in light or distance .
He stopped to try to adjust his vision to the faint starlight.
We stood in the doorway until our eyes adjusted.
It was a few moments before his eyes became adjusted to the bright glare of the sun.
inflections adjustsadjustingadjusted
cefr-level B2

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