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| Main Entry: |
acclimate
 [ak-luh-meyt, uh-klahy-mit] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become adjusted, adapted |
| Synonyms: | acclimatize, accommodate, acculture, accustom, climatize, conform, get used to, habituate, harden, season, toughen |
| Main Entry: | habituate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare, accustom |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, acclimatize, addict, adjust, break in, condition, confirm, devote, discipline, endure, familiarize, harden, inure, make used to, school, season, take to, tolerate, train |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | harden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accustom |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, acclimatize, adapt, adjust, blunt, brutalize, callous, callus, case-harden, climatize, coarsen, conform, deaden, develop, discipline, dull, embitter, habituate, indurate, inure, make callous, numb, paralyze, render insensitive, roughen, season, steel, stiffen, strengthen, stun, stupefy, teach, train |
| Antonyms: | be intolerant, indulge, spoil |
Example Sentences
- It does take a while for foreign students to acclimate.
- To acclimate to the big chill ahead, they rode exercise bikes in a friend's walk-in freezer.
- He notes that by giving the traveling team a rest day to acclimate to the new time zone a three-hour advantage can be cut to two.
| Main Entry: | inure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accustom |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, familiarize, habituate, harden, make ready, season, toughen, train |
| Main Entry: | season |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | acclimatize, prepare |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, accustom, anneal, climatize, discipline, fit, habituate, harden, inure, mature, qualify, school, steel, temper, toughen, train |
| Main Entry: | toughen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harden |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, acclimatize, anneal, brutalize, climatize, develop, inure, make difficult, season, strengthen, temper |
| Antonyms: | flex, soften, tenderize |
| Main Entry: | weather |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, bear the brunt of, bear up against, become toughened, brave, come through, expose, get through, grow hardened, grow strong, harden, make it, overcome, pull through, resist, ride out, rise above, season, stand, stick it out, suffer, surmount, survive, toughen, withstand |
| Notes: | a wether is a neutered ram; weather is climactic and atmospheric conditions; while whether simply means 'if' or 'either' |
| Antonyms: | refuse, reject |
| Main Entry: | naturalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confer citizenship upon |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, accustom, adapt, adopt, conform |
| Main Entry: | get used to |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become acclimated |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, accustom, acquaint, adapt, adjust, familiarize, habituate |
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