- present tense form of accustom (3rd person singular).
accustoms
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Chief among these techniques is "systematic desensitization," the process a mother uses when she accustoms a baby to the ocean by dipping in one foot first, then a leg, then the infant's whole body.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
He accustoms himself to think before he speaks.
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
She accustoms her face to a simper, which every separate feature in it belies.
From Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous
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