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
Asimov viewed part of the task of science fiction as accustoming readers to the idea of change, to the knowledge that “things will be different,” and so to help them plan for change with wisdom.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2013
I had great difficulty in accustoming her to it; but now the thing goes all alone, and she leaves me as much liberty as I can possibly desire.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
