climatizev.
/ˈklʌɪmətʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈklaɪməˌtaɪz/ transitive and intransitive = acclimatize v.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [verb (intransitive)] > acclimatize
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [verb (transitive)] > acclimatize
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > become accustomed > to circumstances
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person) > adapt to circumstances
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1826 in A. Benezet Family Physician 21 That some who have been born, or who have become climatized, in places, which to a stranger prove unhealthy, are generally free from disease..proves little.
1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 26 Leaving it to climatize or adjust itself to the locality.
1926 R. B. Townshend Last Memories of Tenderfoot xiii. 190 So I rode, and with much less fatigue than when I came out first. For I am getting climatized.
1962 Washington Daily News 16 July 12/2 We all have ‘climatized’ ourselves rapidly and thoroughly and can work a full day in the broiling sun.
1998 S. Fried Bitter Pills i. iii. 76 She wanted to get on with her life, treat the symptoms she could treat and ‘climatize’ to those she could not.
Derivatives
ˈclimatizing n.
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1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxi. 55 It may possibly be ascribed to the climatizing process.
1992 N. Ryan & J. Jenkins Miracle Man x. 124 We talked quite a while, and I raised all my questions about climatizing and changing clubs and all that.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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