ACCLIMATISE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does acclimatise mean?

• ACCLIMATISE (verb)
The verb ACCLIMATISE has 1 sense:

1. get used to a certain climate

Familiarity information: ACCLIMATISE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ACCLIMATISE (verb)

Conjugation:

Present simple: I / you / we / they acclimatise

... he / she / it acclimatises

Past simple: acclimatised

Past participle: acclimatised

-ing form: acclimatising

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get used to a certain climate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

acclimate; acclimatise; acclimatize

Context example:

They never acclimatized in Egypt

Hypernyms (to "acclimatise" is one way to...):

adapt; adjust; conform (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

acclimatisation (adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment))

climate (the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time)

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