Usually means: Adjusting to new conditions gradually.
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  1. acclimatize: Merriam-Webster
  2. acclimatize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acclimatize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acclimatize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acclimatize: Vocabulary.com
  6. acclimatize: Wordnik
  7. acclimatize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acclimatize: Wiktionary
  9. acclimatize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acclimatize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acclimatize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acclimatize: Dictionary.com
  13. Acclimatize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Acclimatize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. acclimatize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. acclimatize: Rhymezone
  17. acclimatize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. acclimatize: FreeDictionary.org
  19. acclimatize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. acclimatize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. acclimatize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. acclimatize: Merriam-Webster

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  1. acclimatize: Legal dictionary

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  1. acclimatize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. acclimatize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. acclimatize: Medical dictionary

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  1. acclimatize: Idioms

(Note: See acclimatized as well.)

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verb:  (intransitive) To get used to a new climate, or to a new situation.
verb:  (transitive) To make used to a new climate or one that is different from that which is natural; to inure or habituate to other circumstances; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate.

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