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conform
/kənˈfɔɹm/
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What does conform mean?
verb
- To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
- To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.
- To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.
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They too conform to the principle of the same, and may be compared with the modern conception of laws of nature.
“Master Land, we must conform to the rules on board, and I suppose our appetites are in advance of the dinner hour.”
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This is no cast-iron Scheme, forged in a single brain and then set up as a standard to which all must conform.
Grounds which conform to the instructed tastes of the latter-day upper class do not show these features in so marked a degree.
It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.