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Meanings of habituate in English

Portuguese
usar
Spanish
utilizar

To take or consume (regularly or habitually).

        usar
        Portuguese
        habituar-se
        Catalan
        soler
        Spanish
        soler

        Make psychologically or physically used (to something)

              habituar-se
              Usage of habituate in English
              1
              Neither did waiting seem to habituate her vision to the lack of light.
              Red Masquerade: Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter
              2
              Train them to virtue, habituate them to industry, activity, and spirit.
              Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
              3
              I can agree that practicing falling can habituate you to an otherwise frightening experience.
              Rock and Ice Magazine
              4
              Human nature can habituate itself even to pain, and it was so with him.
              A Mummer's Wife
              5
              Better, rather, habituate ourselves to think of it as unalterable.
              The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
              6
              Eventually this unquestioning acceptance of bizarre behaviors may habituate them to the idea of violence.
              Death du Jour
              7
              Furthermore, patients with schizophrenia habituate less than healthy subjects.
              Pubmed
              8
              Again, at a reperusal, he informed her: "I must habituate myself."
              Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
              9
              This may allow animals to more specifically or flexibly habituate based on stimulus context or internal states.
              Pubmed
              10
              My object is to habituate your mind-
              Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
              11
              Tyrants know that to habituate nations to oppression, the moral feeling of the people has to be killed.
              Select Speeches of Kossuth
              12
              Never had I so much need of the fortitude to which I have endeavoured to habituate my mind.
              Anna St. Ives
              13
              Still others habituate themselves to some manner of tone-production, and neither increase nor diminish the degree of stiffness.
              The Psychology of Singing / A Rational Method of Voice Culture B...
              14
              To habituate your hands, run up an easier climb or part of your project, letting the cold sink in.
              Climbing Magazine
              15
              It is a barren superfluity, to which those who can hardly procure what nature requires, cannot prudently habituate themselves.
              The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
              16
              Human beings habituate fast.
              The Slab
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              Translations for habituate
              Habituate through the time