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Habituate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To accustom by frequent repetition or prolonged exposure.

verb-intransitive. To cause physiological or psychological habituation, as to a drug.

verb-intransitive. Psychology To experience habituation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To turn into a habit, to make habitual.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

v. To settle as an inhabitant.

adj. Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To accustom; make familiar by habit or customary experience.

To settle as an inhabitant in a place.

Synonyms 1. To inure, harden, familiarize (with).

Inveterate by custom; formed by habit; habitual.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. take or consume (regularly or habitually)

v. make psychologically or physically used (to something)

Word Usage

"Emotional rewards from novel stimuli are processed by dopamine receptors in the striatum, but the brain is designed to habituate, that is, not get so excited by repeated stimuli."

Verb Form

habituated habituates habituating

Form

habituated habituating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

accustom familiarize habitual accustomed inure