The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ADAPT
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More clues leading to the result ADAPT
- Make changes in plug fitting
- Modify a dwelling on return at end of August
- Tailor inclined to get behind promotional material
- Bill likely to change
- Modify notice, adding a short point
- Modify trailer fitting
- Alter Alfred’s jacket fitting
- Modify a flat over time
- Nowadays old man gets upset and tense with change
- Change a lawyer gets with pint
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The straight part
We know that "Modify" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case modify = adapt.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ADAPT mean?
ADAPT verb- To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
- To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
- To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
- To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
- Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.