Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acclimatize \Ac*cli"ma*tize\ ([a^]k`kl[imac]"m[.a]*t[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acclimatized ([a^]k`kl[imac]"m[.a]*t[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimatizing ([a^]k`kl[imac]"m[.a]*t[imac]`z[i^]ng).] To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836; see acclimate + -ize; a more recent formation than acclimate and replacing it in many uses. Related: Acclimatized; acclimatizing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To get used to a new climate. 2 (context transitive English) 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.
WordNet
v. get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in Egypt" [syn: acclimatise, acclimate]
Usage examples of "acclimatize".
My intestines complained noisily from prelanding treatments and, despite having spent several megaseconds acclimatizing to a simulated Stratos atmosphere, my lungs labored audibly in the heavy air.
Fort Bliss and completely acclimatized to life in the Texas-Mexican Southwest, when news came that the Army had decided to experiment with rockets in a massive way.
The sickness was going, subsiding slowly like an ebb tide, leaving me acclimatized to an alien environment.
New World, especially as slaves of negro blood, well acclimatized to tropical heat, were able to survive where white men must have perished by thousands.
With eyes slowly acclimatizing I went that way and found her not far off, on her knees beside one of the posts, sobbing with the deep sound of a wholly adult desperation.
The sounds she was making were nonhu-man, but to Jameson's acclimatized ears they were piteous nevertheless.
The shuttle's destination was smaller than that but different in that it was a private moon acclimatized for its owners and not very natural at all.
Our physiological evolution has acclimatized us irredeemably to our current status.
And this was especially important because the passengers could now acclimatize themselves one step at a time to the higher or lower gravities to which they were traveling.
After the first gulp Ronald became acclimatized to the peculiar taste of it and, as the evening advanced and they became dependent on the light of the bonfirelike cooking flame, he even found himself liking it.
That is for another time, when the sting of the Great Demotions is well behind us, when we are acclimatized to other worlds and they to us, when we are spreading outward to the stars.
As Kirk and Spock stepped carefully out of the stairwell part of the access tube into the receiving baythey were acclimatizing themselves to the one-third higher gravityStokely stepped forward to hand each of them a phaser and communicator.
Perhaps the higher gravity levels were so they could begin acclimatizing themselves to the higher gees as soon as they knew they would have to.
Sariena was acclimatizing, getting outside for gradually longer spells, and spending as much time standing as she could comfortably manage.
As Kirk and Spock stepped carefully out of the stairwell part of the access tube into the receiving bay-they were acclimatizing themselves to the one-third higher gravity-Stokely stepped forward to hand each of them a phaser and communicator.