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accustom Definition

ac·cus·tom (ə kustəm)

transitive verb

to make familiar by custom, habit, or use; habituate (to)

Etymology: ME accustomen < OFr acostumer < a-, to + costume: see custom

accustom Usage Examples

Object

  • audience: Abstract ideas are difficult to convey on television, or at least to an audience accustomed to fast-paced action.
  • reader: Readers accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers.
  • anyone: And to anyone accustomed to the imaginative handling of documents, the internal evidence bears out the claim.
  • eye: Brooks sings: ' Eyes accustomed to the light / accustomed to seeing which way the water flows.
  • man: Men accustomed for many months to obey suddenly found themselves in command.
  • people: This shift helped to accustom people to considering beer a sociable, even elegant drink in contrast to its image prior to 1990.

Infinitive complement

  • act: A shadow director is a person in accordance with whose instructions the directors of the company are accustomed to act.
  • speak: In the main we seemed to be hearing a desperate plea for leniency from one not accustomed to speak in such terms.
  • hear: It here speaks with the imperious voice we are accustomed to hear from the morality of duty.
  • see: Nor are there any of the Greek or Roman references that we are accustomed to see.
  • pay: Mobile phone users are accustomed to pay for mobile services on a per use base.
  • do: Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: One becomes so accustomed to all the dead being men that the sight of a dead woman is quite shocking.
  • once: Once accustomed to a helmet, riding without it does make the rider feel vulnerable - - for the first half mile.
  • quite: The average British soldier would soon be quite accustomed to meeting up with people from all over the world.
  • well: Also well accustomed Inn called the Angel situated in the market place.
  • already: This program is suitable for those already accustomed to weight training.
  • long: The new cushions are a great improvement upon the hard marble seats we have been so long accustomed to.

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