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acclimating

acclimating is the present participle and gerund 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 acclimating

What is acclimating the present participle and gerund of?
Acclimating is the present participle and gerund of acclimate.

Words near acclimating in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acclimating (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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