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Acclimate

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

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Adapt 76% connected

Fitted; suited.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Adjust 76% connected

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

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Conform 76% connected

Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.

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Acclimation 74% connected

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Acclimation 74% connected

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Climate 74% connected

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to t…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Climate 74% connected

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to t…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Acclimatize 92% connected

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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