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 natural man is eager for expansion and liberty, and accustoms himself with difficulty to the severe restrictions which social necessities impose upon him.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
The true ideal of education is such as sharpens the judgment and accustoms the individual to consider his action from all sides, in the consciousness of personal responsibility.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
This is indicated by the manner in which it accustoms itself to the sight of strange objects, and by its behavior when a change is made in its nest or surroundings.
From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Charles P. Alexander
