verb [V]
1 ~ (to sth) to behave and think in the same way as most other people in a group or society:
There is considerable pressure on teenagers to conform. * He refused to conform to the local customs.
2 ~ to / with sth to obey a rule, law, etc.
SYNCOMPLY:
The building does not conform with safety regulations.
3 ~ to sth to agree with or match sth:
Wordsworth changed the ideas of his poem to conform with his later religious and political opinions. * It did not conform to the usual stereotype of an industrial city.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for conform is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does conform appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — conform appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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