adjust

To modify.

Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

To improve or rectify.

He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.

But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

To settle an insurance claim.

To change to fit circumstances.

Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.

She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.