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GET USED TO

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get or become familiar or accustomed with through experience

Example:

I finally got used to my husband's odd habits

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "get used to" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

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

adapt; adjust; conform (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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