adapt vs evolve

adapt

verb
  • To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust 

  • To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit 

  • To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character 

  • To make oneself comfortable to a new thing. 

adj
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable. 

evolve

verb
  • To change; transform. 

  • Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution. 

  • To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction). 

  • To move in regular procession through a system. 

  • To come into being; develop. 

  • Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution. 

  • Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution. 

  • To cause something to change or transform. 

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