acclimatizes

Adjusts to environment

Acclimatizes means becomes adjusted to new conditions, especially climate or environment.

The process takes time—travelers acclimatize to altitude, transplants acclimatize to new cultures, animals acclimatize to captivity.

It takes a few days to acclimatize to the thin air at high elevation.

The spelling acclimatizes is standard in American English; acclimate is the more common American verb form.

adjustment

adapts

Modifies to suit circumstances

adjustsAlters for improvement
accommodatesMakes room for
attunesAligns with surroundings

calibrates · transitions · settles · orientates · familiarizes · reorients · assimilates · integrates · normalizes · equilibrates

habituation

accustoms

Makes gradually comfortable with

habituatesAdapts through repetition
inuresAccustoms through experience
conditionsPrevailing state of affairs

desensitizes · familiarization · routine · tolerance · exposure therapy · gradual · incremental · repeated · normalizes · second-nature

physiological

altitude

Measured height above reference

acclimationAdjusting to new conditions
conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
thermoregulationMaintaining stable internal heat

hypoxia · adaptation · oxygen · elevation · endurance · tolerance · exposure · metabolism · respiration · homeostasis

environmental

weather

Atmospheric state outdoors

temperatureMeasured heat intensity
terrainLand's physical features
habitatOrganism's natural environment

ecosystem · wilderness · tropics · arctic · desert · monsoon · humidity · seasons · atmosphere · migration

Opposites

adaptation process

acclimatizesstruggles

Difficult prolonged efforts

rejects · resists · suffers · deteriorates · withers

temporal mode of change

acclimatizesstagnates

Ceases movement or progress

Family

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