HABITUATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does habituate mean?
• HABITUATE (verb)
The verb HABITUATE has 2 senses:
1. take or consume (regularly or habitually)
2. make psychologically or physically used (to something)
Familiarity information: HABITUATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HABITUATE (verb)
Meaning:
Take or consume (regularly or habitually)
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
habituate; use
Context example:
She uses drugs rarely
Hypernyms (to "habituate" is one way to...):
consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "habituate"):
drink; tope (drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic)
board (lodge and take meals (at))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make psychologically or physically used (to something)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
accustom; habituate
Context example:
She became habituated to the background music
Hypernyms (to "habituate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "habituate"):
harden; indurate; inure (cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate)
teach (accustom gradually to some action or attitude)
addict; hook (to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
