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
This is indicated by the manner in which it accustoms itself to the sight of strange objects, and by its behavior when a change is made in its nest or surroundings.
From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Alexander, Charles P.
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
Little by little it accustoms itself to them.
From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by Castaigne, J. André
