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habituated

/huh-bich-oo-eyt/US // həˈbɪtʃ uˌeɪt //UK // (həˈbɪtjʊˌeɪt) //

习惯于,习惯了,习惯性的,习惯性地

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ha·bit·u·at·ed, ha·bit·u·at·ing.

    • : to accustom, as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
    • : Archaic. to frequent.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ha·bit·u·at·ed, ha·bit·u·at·ing.

    • : to cause habituation, physiologically or psychologically.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.chronic

Examples

  • This is doubtless due, as in the case of most poisons, to the system becoming habituated to its use.

  • Poor wretches, habituated to poverty, undergo all these sufferings with a fortitude which we frequently meet with in malefactors.

  • "It's only a lobster, you know," she said, with the careless ease of a young woman quite habituated to midnight suppers.

  • Besides these philosophers, thousands of wise men amongst the Greeks, ancient and modern, habituated themselves to travel.

  • I gradually became habituated to the custom, and did not notice it.