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ACCULTURATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they acculturate ... he / she / it acculturates
Past simple: acculturated
Past participle: acculturated
-ing form: acculturating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Assimilate culturally
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "acculturate" is one way to...):
assimilate (become similar to one's environment)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "acculturate"):
detribalise; detribalize (cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
acculturation (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)
acculturative (of or relating to acculturation)
culture (the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group)
culture (all the knowledge and values shared by a society)
culture (a particular society at a particular time and place)
