MEANING
1. To adapt, or help something adapt, to a changed climate or physical environment.
2. To become, or make someone, accustomed to unfamiliar conditions or circumstances.
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Words that belong together
- acclimatize to altitude
- acclimatize a plant
On the page
The expedition paused to acclimatize to the altitude.
They acclimatized the plants before moving them outside.
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Word forms
- Base
- acclimatize
- Past tense
- acclimatized
- Past participle
- acclimatized
- Present participle
- acclimatizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- acclimatize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are acclimatizing
- Present perfect
- have/has acclimatized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been acclimatizing
- Past
- acclimatized
- Past continuous
- was/were acclimatizing
- Past perfect
- had acclimatized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been acclimatizing
- Future
- will acclimatize
- Future continuous
- will be acclimatizing
- Future perfect
- will have acclimatized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been acclimatizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: acclimatize; acclimatizes; acclimatized; acclimatized; acclimatizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: acclimatizes.
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