Acclimatize

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  • intransitive verb. To acclimate. synonym: harden.
  • intransitive verb. To adapt (oneself), especially to environmental or climatic changes.
  • intransitive verb. To become acclimated or adapted.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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 spelled acclimatise.
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To get used to a new climate.
  • verb. To make used to a new climate or one that is different from that which is natural; to inure or habituate to other circumstances; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. get used to a certain climate
  • Word Usage
    "Get rid of the competing formats, so that the reading public has a chance to acclimatize to a standard format across all publishers."