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habituate

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9 lettersPronunciation /həˈbɪtju.eɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aabehittuStarts with HEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. make psychologically or physically used (to something)

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English habituat(e) (“physically established or present”), borrowed from Late Latin habituātus, perfect passive participle of habituō (“to bring into a condition or habit of body”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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  • My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
  • […] quarrels in discotheques were settled by the final curse-word of guns. State violence under the old, past regime had habituated its victims to it. People had forgotten there was any other way.

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