D defs.my
Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Accommodate

/ək-äm'-əd-ātˌ/ · Ac·com·mo·date · IPA /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/
01 v. t. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
imp. & p. p. Accommodated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating
  1. 1.
    To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
  2. 2.
    To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
  3. 3.
    To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
  4. 4.
    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.
02 v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
  1. 1.
    To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.[R.]
03 a. Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
  1. 1.
    Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.[Archaic]