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acclimates

acclimates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of acclimate.

Meaning of acclimate

Verb

acclimate (third-person singular simple present acclimates, present participle acclimating, simple past and past participle acclimated)

  1. (US, transitive) To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
  2. (US, transitive) To adjust to a new environment; not necessarily a wild, natural, earthy one.
  3. (US, intransitive) To become accustomed to a new climate or environment.

Questions about acclimates

What is acclimates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Acclimates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of acclimate.

Words near acclimates in the dictionary

  1. acclimatations
  2. acclimate
  3. acclimated
  4. acclimatement
  5. acclimatements
  6. acclimates
  7. acclimating
  8. acclimation
  9. acclimational
  10. acclimations
  11. acclimatisable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acclimates (page history and authors); acclimate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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