Crossword clues for acclimate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acclimate \Ac*cli"mate\ (#; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Acclimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimating.] [F. acclimater;
To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
--J. H.
Newman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1792, from French acclimater, verb formed from à "to" (see ad-) + climat (see climate). Related: Acclimated; acclimating. The extended form acclimatize is now more common.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive chiefly US English) To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. 2 (context transitive English) To adjust to a new environment; not necessarily a wild, natural, earthy one. 3 (context intransitive English) To become accustomed to a new climate or environment.
WordNet
v. get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in Egypt" [syn: acclimatize, acclimatise]
Usage examples of "acclimate".
Jews a certain part of the forest and see to it that various animals that look damned much like Jews - the elk has a crooked nose like theirs - get there also and become acclimated.
But perhaps the dossiers told of how Jake, Paul, and Gary had become close friends as well as climbing partners over the past few years, friends who trusted each other to the point of trespassing on the Himalaya Preserve just to get acclimated for the climb of their lives.
About half of these, given rest and time to acclimate slowly to the new altitudes, got better.
Still, Razor John was a hearty soul, and he quickly acclimated to the everpresent dampness and the aches it caused.
Such alpine ascents offer less time to acclimate but also demand less time spent in the Death Zone.
Our plan was to spend two nights on the South Col and acclimate ourselves to the lower edge of the Death Zone before heading down and flying on to Concordia for our legal K2 climb.
The first sensation was of his balls being jellied by the uneven stride, but he managed to acclimate to that, rising and falling with the horse, rather than against it.
She continued to acclimate herself to the wonder of weightlessness, using the handholds to pull herself back and forth through the cabin, occasionally hanging upside down like a bat with her feet touching the ceiling.
For one thing, we tell the new apprentices of the hallucinations at the start, as I told you, and they generally avoid the planet until they are more acclimated, and then it doesn happen to them.
We have our insects that are acclimated and under control, but what if strange insects are casually and unintentionally introduced from another Settlement or from Earth?
But perhaps the dossiers told of how Jake, Paul, and Gary had become close friends as well as climbing partners over the past few years, friends who trusted each other to the point of trespassing on the Himalaya Preserve just to get acclimated for the climb of their lives.
Asleep in his five-star accommodations, snoring with a contentment that belies three weeks of peevishness, William Hope Planter is now well acclimated to thirteen and a half thousand feet.
Shireen Khairallah, giving Schubert an opportunity to become acclimated to the twentieth century.
When a man turns into a wolf, he becomes acclimated to what it's like to be a wolf.
He wasn't acclimated to the couldn't run and talk, he struggled to keep his feet under him as the intruder dodged around brush and rocks and pulled him along.