Definition of accustom
transitive verb
:to make familiar with something through use or experience
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the task of accustoming new recruits to shipboard life
Recent Examples of accustom from the Web
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MODERN-DAY SLAVERY In the United States I was accustomed to seeing harvesters and tractors.
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Businesses that were accustomed to having a wide selection of employees would start to complain of a labor shortage.
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Staff at the liberal consumer-health lobby Families USA grew accustomed over the past four years to frequent meetings with HHS staff members to talk over eligibility and related issues for open enrollments.
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Accustomed to awarding Knight’s grants, Haggman will now have to get used to asking political donors for campaign cash.
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They were accustomed to training exercises off San Diego and spent time in port in Hawaii.
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The American people of the 1970s were accustomed to Rollers that weren’t Rollers.
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KELLY CLANCY’S TOUCH was gentle, much lighter than the firm intensity I was accustomed to from previous body work.
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This might frighten away some of the transplants accustomed to the manicured chaininess of Scottsdale, but no true barbecue lover worries about such things.
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Origin and Etymology of accustom
Middle English, from Anglo-French acostomer, from a- (from Latin ad-) + custume custom
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