accustom
verb (used with object)
to familiarize by custom or use; habituate.
accustoming
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present participleof accustom.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Writer-director Adam Meeks has set out to make a drama-documentary hybrid, and this is his simple opening gambit, accustoming us to seeing the characters he has created enmeshed in a world inhabited by real people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Bacon said he and the fellow star had no qualms accustoming to their new routine while quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic.
From Fox News ● Jan. 10, 2022
“These reviews also had a good effect in accustoming the troops to see me, although they saw so much of me in their camps and on the picket-lines that this was of minor importance.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
The old falconers called the process of accustoming a hawk to a human “watching.”
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015
The monster to which Marie was accustoming herself was the knowledge that her lover had lied.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
