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  • verb To accustom again.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ accustom

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Examples

  • Sliding out after Matt, who was patiently holding the door open for her, she stood looking up at the house for a moment as she waited for her wobbly legs to reaccustom themselves to solid ground.

    Whispers At Midnight Karen Robards 2003

  • Sliding out after Matt, who was patiently holding the door open for her, she stood looking up at the house for a moment as she waited for her wobbly legs to reaccustom themselves to solid ground.

    Whispers At Midnight Karen Robards 2003

  • Sliding out after Matt, who was patiently holding the door open for her, she stood looking up at the house for a moment as she waited for her wobbly legs to reaccustom themselves to solid ground.

    Whispers At Midnight Karen Robards 2003

  • Sliding out after Matt, who was patiently holding the door open for her, she stood looking up at the house for a moment as she waited for her wobbly legs to reaccustom themselves to solid ground.

    Whispers At Midnight Karen Robards 2003

  • Torn between her desire to give him the time he needed to reaccustom himself to a life together and her own need for reassurance, she felt frustrated and angry, emotions she knew would yield nothing but chaos between them if they didn't open the lines of communication fairly soon.

    Honorbound Taylor, Laura 1988

  • Tanis blinked, trying once more to reaccustom his eyes to the dark.

    Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984

  • Tanis blinked, trying once more to reaccustom his eyes to the dark.

    Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984

  • That night we reveled in luxury, for after the life we had led recently it took time to reaccustom any of us to the common comforts.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • That night we reveled in luxury, for after the life we had led recently it took time to reaccustom any of us to the common comforts.

    The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Thus passed several weeks; time long enough for my brown and toil-hardened hands to reaccustom themselves to gloves.

    The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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