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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. make psychologically or physically used (to something);
- Example: "She became habituated to the background music"
[syn: habituate, accustom]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, n. Custom. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accustomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Accustoming.] [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; [`a] (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See Custom.] To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to. [1913 Webster] I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. --Adventurer. [1913 Webster] Syn: To habituate; inure; exercise; train. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, v. i. 1. To be wont. [Obs.] --Carew. [1913 Webster] 2. To cohabit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

accustom v 1: make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" [syn: habituate, accustom]