accustomac‧cus‧tom /əˈkʌstəm/ ●○○ verb [transitive] 
Word Origin Examples
It took a while for me to accustom myself to all the new rules and regulations.
Word OriginWORD ORIGINaccustom
Verb TableOrigin:
1400-1500 Old French acostumer, from costume ‘custom’VERB TABLE
accustom
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | accustom |
| he, she, it | accustoms | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | accustomed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have accustomed |
| he, she, it | has accustomed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had accustomed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will accustom |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have accustomed |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Collocations- A worn out slob, he can not accustom himself to the idea of women playing the sport seriously.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► so
Word family· He is so accustomed to taking charge, and so fearful of intrusions, that he feels he can trust only himself.· But we were so accustomed to it that we hardly even thought to conceive otherwise.· Maybe they were so accustomed to their job that they thought this was hilarious.
► to· They could not produce a new conversation in the milliseconds that they were accustomed to.· The middle-aged may want to preserve an order they are accustomed to, or perhaps their careers.
NOUN► people· The oral media have accustomed people to continual and infinitely practicable mutability.· A cavalier Southerner, he was hot-blooded, self-confident, accustomed to swaying people through his force of personality.
VERB► become· BUsers of conventional phones have long become accustomed to Bfree 911 access as a public right.· The higher the education the higher priced drinks they become accustomed to.· Men believed that a person could become accustomed to confinement.· Besides, she had become accustomed to Sally.· People tend to adjust the volume upward as their ears become accustomed to a given sound intensity.· We live in an age of niche markets, in which customers have become accustomed to high quality and extensive choice.· It takes a day at least for me to become accustomed to the motion of the ship.· It was a bleak existence, but what struck Joe was how easily he and his fellow internees became accustomed to it.
► get· You have got to accustom yourself to the book that is written from several different viewpoints.· Your eyes get accustomed to the dark and you see the waitress is naked.· After nine months as people were getting accustomed to feeling well, they were less compliant with their follow up data.· She could never get accustomed to motel trysts.· They get accustomed to humdrum research and will create more when the current assignment runs dry.· Frankie's in for an education as he gets accustomed to a whole world he has no experience with.
► grow· During her six months at the lab, Faith and the others have grown accustomed to the testing.· He grew accustomed to feeling inexpert and out of his depth.· He had grown accustomed to Salomon Brothers' bonus sessions, where he had rarely got more than he expected.· As our eyes grow accustomed to the dark, we tell each other bits of plot, funny lines, odd facts.· The Raiders have grown accustomed to their defensive problems by now.· It was awash with phosphorescence, which grew brighter minute by minute as their eyes grew accustomed to the scene.
WORD FAMILYadjectivecustomarycustomcustomizableaccustomednouncustomcustomercustomsverbaccustomcustomizeadverbcustomarily
to make yourself or another person become used to a situation or placeaccustom yourself to something It took a while for me to accustom myself to all the new rules and regulations.