climatize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to acclimate to a new environment.
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to prepare or modify (a building, vehicle, etc.) for use or comfort in a specific climate, especially one that includes extreme cold or extreme heat.
to climatize a house by adding insulation and storm windows.
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In Houston last week, four huge Carrier motors that will climatize the city's new Astrodome-enclosed sports stadium were test-run in preparation for next month's baseball season opener.
From Time Magazine Archive
As I am from the south and it is an average difficulty for a southerner to endure the cold without being climatize.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various
These populations aren’t used to these types of temperatures and therefore might not have the infrastructure available and may not be climatized as individuals in other hot regions could be.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2021
To the men who market air conditioning, the world is full of wide open spaces waiting to be enclosed and climatized.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carrier's largest assignment is the Albany South mall, now building, in which a complex of 19 New York state-government buildings will be climatized by five 4,500-ton motors in the world's largest air-conditioning plant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of foreign fruits now climatized we possess a great variety.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 by Various
Luxurious vines, climatized to this unreal world, clambered over cosy arbours, or clung with gripping fingers to the mossy concrete pillars.
From City of Endless Night by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
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