accustom
verb (used with object)
to familiarize by custom or use; habituate.
will accustom
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future tenseof accustom.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Thus practising in the rain will accustom the players to running and dodging in the mud, and to holding a wet and slippery ball.
From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various
It will also be very advantageous for such to mix with people better and older than themselves, for they will accustom themselves to be silent by standing in awe of their reputation.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
I know, my dear, that this seems very strange to you, but you will accustom yourself to the idea, and then you will see the reasonableness of the Altrurian plan.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by William Dean Howells
You may as well do so, Campbell, it will accustom him to his work.
From Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
He will accustom them to hunt hedge-rows, and light open copses—because always under his eye—before taking them into closer cover.
From The Dog by Dinks
