accommodate

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to '''accommodate''' ourselves to circumstances.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to '''accommodate''' differences, a dispute, etc.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To provide housing for.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to '''accommodate''' a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) 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.
  6. Verb.  ''(intransitive) (rare)'' To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle.
  7. Adjective.  (archaic) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means '''accommodate''' to end. - John Tillotson.

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