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acclimatising

acclimatising is the present participle and gerund of acclimatise.

Meaning of acclimatise

Verb

acclimatise (third-person singular simple present acclimatises, present participle acclimatising, simple past and past participle acclimatised)

  1. Non-Oxford British English and New Zealand standard spelling of acclimatize.
    • The England manager can be encouraged by more evidence that Rickie Lambert has quickly acclimatised to international football, with another headed goal to add to the one he scored against Scotland, but Welbeck's ban comes at a time when Wayne Rooney and Andy Carroll are already out and Daniel...6 September 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian

Questions about acclimatising

What is acclimatising the present participle and gerund of?
Acclimatising is the present participle and gerund of acclimatise.

Words near acclimatising in the dictionary

  1. acclimatise
  2. acclimatised
  3. acclimatiser
  4. acclimatisers
  5. acclimatises
  6. acclimatising
  7. acclimative
  8. acclimatizable
  9. acclimatization
  10. acclimatizational
  11. acclimatizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acclimatising (page history and authors); acclimatise (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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