habituate

vt. 使习惯于, 使熟习于

发音

其它 /həˈbɪtju.eɪt/

词形变化

habituated habituates 三单 habituates habituateth habituating habituating 现在分词 habituated 过去式 habituated 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

    1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311, […] it was the custome of our English doggs (who were habituated vnto a colder clyme) to runne into the sea in the heate of summer […]

    1694, John Tillotson, Sermon 2, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, London: B. Aylmer, 1696, p. 35, Men are usually first corrupted by bad counsel and company […] ; next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices […]

  2. 2.

    To settle as an inhabitant.

    废旧

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

use accustom

上位词 8

have take change alter consume modify ingest take in

下位词 9

teach smoke drug hook addict harden do drugs indurate inure

词源

Inherited from Middle English habituat(e) (“physically established or present”), borrowed from Late Latin habituātus, perfect passive participle of habituō (“to bring into a condition or habit of body”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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