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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
acculturate

1934, back-formation from acculturation. Related: Acculturated; acculturating.

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acculturate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To change one's culture based on the influence of another culture, especially a more advanced culture. 2 (context transitive English) To change by acquiring the culture of society, starting at birth. 3 (context intransitive English) To be changed by acculturation.

WordNet
acculturate

v. assimilate culturally

Usage examples of "acculturate".

There is no reason in our quest for amplified states of Being that we cannot acculturate the enhancement, technique and knowledge of love to a more sophisticated degree than the culture of militarism has carried the strategies of conflict.

American society, those black offenders who have become more acculturated into mainstream society will begin imitating the behavior and custom of their white offender counterparts.

He was acculturated by being escorted around the city by two young priestesses of his own apparent age.

China had absorbed and acculturated previous waves of invaders from the northern wastes.

Each in my world, it seemed, carried about with him a bubble of space, a perimeter, a wall, an invisible shield, an unconsciously acculturated, socially sanctioned remoteness, a barrier decreed by convention and conditioning.