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ACCUSTOM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make psychologically or physically used (to something)

Example:

She became habituated to the background music

Synonyms:

accustom; habituate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "accustom" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accustom"):

harden; indurate; inure (cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate)

teach (accustom gradually to some action or attitude)

addict; hook (to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

Her face was large and square and red, with fierce, thick brows, and the eyes of one who was accustomed to rule.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Accustomed as I was to my friend’s amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Will you permit me to lay the table? Sir Charles is accustomed to partake of certain dishes and to drink certain wines, so that we usually bring them with us when we visit.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have not been accustomed to such language as this.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Certainly I had been accustomed to every luxury at Maple Grove; but I did assure him that two carriages were not necessary to my happiness, nor were spacious apartments.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They were viewing the country with the eyes of persons accustomed to drawing, and decided on its capability of being formed into pictures, with all the eagerness of real taste.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Bowing with the air of one accustomed to public praise, he stole to the cavern and ordered Hagar to come forth with a commanding, "What ho, minion! I need thee!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I'm more accustomed to zero weather."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)