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Definition: ACCLIMATIZING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To adjust or adapt. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To accustom, habituate, familiarize or inure.[Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Present participle conjugation of the verb acclimatize.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(acclimatize)
1. Get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in Egypt".[Wordnet].
2. 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.[Websters].
3. Base verb from the following inflections: acclimatizing, acclimatized, acclimatizes, acclimatizer, acclimatizers, acclimatizingly and acclimatizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "Acclimatizing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references)

Definition: ACCLIMATIZING

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To adjust or adapt. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To accustom, habituate, familiarize or inure.[Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Present participle conjugation of the verb acclimatize.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(acclimatize)
1. Get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in Egypt".[Wordnet].
2. 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.[Websters].
3. Base verb from the following inflections: acclimatizing, acclimatized, acclimatizes, acclimatizer, acclimatizers, acclimatizingly and acclimatizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "ACCLIMATIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references)

Specialty Definition: acclimatize

DomainDefinition
ForestryTo adapt to a new climate, environment, or anything new. (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: acclimatize

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We'll Just Have to Acclimatize Ourselves to the Post-nuclear Area4   We'll Just Have to Acclimatize Ourselves to the Post-nuclear Area4

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