ACCLIMATIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acclimatize mean? 

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

1. get used to a certain climate

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCLIMATIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they acclimatize    ... he / she / it acclimatizes   
Past simple: acclimatized   
Past participle: acclimatized   
-ing form: acclimatizing   

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 "acclimatize" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

acclimatization (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)