Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To acclimate. synonym: harden.
- intransitive verb To adapt (oneself), especially to environmental or climatic changes.
- intransitive verb To become acclimated or adapted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become climatically accustomed or habituated to a new locality or to new conditions.
- To accustom or habituate to a foreign climate; adapt for existence in a foreign climate: especially used of adapting a race or stock for permanent existence and propagation: as, to
acclimatize plants or animals. Also spelledacclimatise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To get
used to a newclimate . - verb transitive To make used to a new
climate or one that is different from that which isnatural ; toinure orhabituate to othercircumstances ; toadapt to thepeculiarities of a foreign or strangeclimate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb get used to a certain climate
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Examples
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Using art and agriculture to acclimatize homeless veterans is a project long overlooked.
Hal Donahue: LA Lawsuit Against VA Demands Accountability and Treatment Hal Donahue 2011
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Using art and agriculture to acclimatize homeless veterans is a project long overlooked.
Hal Donahue: LA Lawsuit Against VA Demands Accountability and Treatment Hal Donahue 2011
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You can also walk further up the hill to help acclimatize.
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It took 6 days of walking for 5-6 hours each day, while gradually gaining in altitude to acclimatize (in Kiswahili "poli-poli", or slowly-slowly).
Climbing Kilimanjaro 2009
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McCarthy hopes to avoid the pitfalls of the transfer period this month by ignoring overseas players, who often require additional time to acclimatize to the British game.
European Soccer's Darkened Window Jonathan Clegg 2012
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It is also a fantastic way to further acclimatize before bagging Pt Lenana.
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You can also walk further up the hill to help acclimatize.
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Get rid of the competing formats, so that the reading public has a chance to acclimatize to a standard format across all publishers.
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It is also a fantastic way to further acclimatize before bagging Pt Lenana.
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Get rid of the competing formats, so that the reading public has a chance to acclimatize to a standard format across all publishers.
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