Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To accustom to a new climate, as a plant; acclimatize.
  • To become acclimated or acclimatized. Also spelled climatise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To acclimate or become acclimated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To acclimate or become acclimated.

Etymologies

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climate +‎ -ize?

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Examples

  • It has to be a well planned moved ... adult (foreigner) males will 'climatize' better than non peruvian women to such diff. environment.

    Living in Peru : News 2009

  • As I am from the south and it is an average difficulty for a southerner to endure the cold without being climatize.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Various

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