- past tense form of acclimatize.
- past participle of acclimatize.
acclimatized
Example Sentences
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“Many, many people wouldn’t have been acclimatized to the heat,” said Wasiu Adeniyi Ibrahim, head of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency’s central forecast office and an author of the study.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
Vanos said the commonly-used wet-bulb temperature for human survivability assumes the person is indoors or shaded, unclothed, completely sedentary, fully heat acclimatized and of an "average size."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
And humans haven’t yet acclimatized to prolonged hot weather the way they have later in the summer — they just aren’t ready for the shock of a sudden extreme heat wave.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2023
But here I am, at the cusp of something: acclimatized — or better yet, invested — in a way I never used to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2021
I huffed toward the relative security of the serac’s crest with all the haste I could muster, but since I wasn’t acclimatized my fastest pace was no better than a crawl.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
