accustom

/ɐkˈʌstəm/

/əˈkəstəm/

[verb]

to accustom

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

make psychologically or physically used (to something)

synonyms : habituate

Examples

1. And here the aquarium is accustoming to the plants.

2. The Chinese were accustoming their own people to this breakthrough.

3. By jettisoning the distilled wisdom about fundamental fairness in a free society, higher education accustoms students to the exercise of arbitrary power.

4. Yet, somehow, Napoleon accustomed himself to life at Brienne.