accustom
verb (used with object)
to familiarize by custom or use; habituate.
accustoms
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present tense formof accustom (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Chief among these techniques is "systematic desensitization," the process a mother uses when she accustoms a baby to the ocean by dipping in one foot first, then a leg, then the infant's whole body.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
The lady went to look at it, but found it very ugly, and thought to herself that daily habit soon accustoms us to the defects of others.
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
He accustoms himself to think before he speaks.
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
But at least it encourages somewhat more sustained reading and, what is the great fact, it accustoms the reader to handling something in the form of a book.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
