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ACCLIMATIZED (12)

ACCLIMATISE

acclimatize, acclimatise, acclimate - v 
get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in Egypt" 

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Synonyms

acclimate, accommodate, adjust, conform, fit, reconcile, shape, tailor

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Examples

They have been travelling for two days and will need some time to acclimatise.

He flew to Nice to acclimatize himself, two days before Neville was due.

It took a moment to acclimatize to the sudden light and to the brightness of violent colour; there was blood everywhere.

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Etymology

1824, "modify a living thing to suit a foreign climate" (transitive); see acclimate + -ize. A more recent formation than acclimate and generally replacing it in this sense. Related: Acclimatized; acclimatizing. Simple climatize is attested from 1826 as "inure (a living thing) to a climate."

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