acclimate

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to change to suit different conditions of life, weather, etc., or to make someone or something do this:

Teachers begin acclimating young students to new learning technologies in a simple way.

acclimate to It can be difficult to acclimate to such extreme elevations.

Apparently the zoo animals had become acclimated to the crowd noise and were no longer startled by it.

Gradually acclimate yourself to working out in the heat.

to change to suit different conditions of life, or to cause someone to change to suit conditions:

[ I ] Apparently the zoo animals had become acclimated to the crowd noise and were no longer startled by it.