adapt (something) from (something)

adapt (something) from (something)

To create one thing from another. The film was adapted from a famous novel. Is there any way to adapt an electric vehicle from a gas-powered one? Did you read that juicy article? The editor adapted everything from the author's own letters to his wife.

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adapt something from something

to derive something from something else; to create by modifying something else. I adapted my new musical from a novel.

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