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acculturing

acculturing is the present participle and gerund of acculture.

Meaning of acculture

Verb

acculture (third-person singular simple present accultures, present participle acculturing, simple past and past participle accultured)

  1. To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an immigrant
    • I accultured myself very easily when I moved from Chile to Brazil; Portuguese, being similar to Spanish, was easy to learn. It might have been harder to acculture to life in Hong Kong.

Questions about acculturing

What is acculturing the present participle and gerund of?
Acculturing is the present participle and gerund of acculture.

Words near acculturing in the dictionary

  1. acculturations
  2. acculturative
  3. acculture
  4. accultured
  5. accultures
  6. acculturing
  7. acculturize
  8. acculturized
  9. acculturizes
  10. acculturizing
  11. accumb

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