Acclimate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acclimate \Ac*cli"mate\ (#; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Acclimated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Acclimating}.] [F. acclimater;
     [`a] (l. ad) + climat climate. See {Climate}.]
     To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. --J. H.
     Newman.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  acclimate
       v : get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in
           Egypt" [syn: {acclimatize}, {acclimatise}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "acclimate":
     acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, break, break in,
     case harden, condition, confirm, domesticate, domesticize,
     establish, familiarize, fix, gentle, habituate, harden, housebreak,
     inure, naturalize, orient, orientate, season, tame, toughen, train,
     wont