Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to accustom
Participle: accustomed
Gerund: accustoming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | accustom |
| you | accustom |
| he;she;it | accustoms |
| we | accustom |
| you | accustom |
| they | accustom |
Perfect
| I | have accustomed |
| you | have accustomed |
| he;she;it | has accustomed |
| we | have accustomed |
| you | have accustomed |
| they | have accustomed |
Past
| I | accustomed |
| you | accustomed |
| he;she;it | accustomed |
| we | accustomed |
| you | accustomed |
| they | accustomed |
Pluperfect
| I | had accustomed |
| you | had accustomed |
| he;she;it | had accustomed |
| we | had accustomed |
| you | had accustomed |
| they | had accustomed |
Future
| I | will accustom |
| you | will accustom |
| he;she;it | will accustom |
| we | will accustom |
| you | will accustom |
| they | will accustom |
Future Perfect
| I | will have accustomed |
| you | will have accustomed |
| he;she;it | will have accustomed |
| we | will have accustomed |
| you | will have accustomed |
| they | will have accustomed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | accustom |
| you | accustom |
| he;she;it | accustom |
| we | accustom |
| you | accustom |
| they | accustom |
Perfect
| I | have accustomed |
| you | have accustomed |
| he;she;it | have accustomed |
| we | have accustomed |
| you | have accustomed |
| they | have accustomed |
Imperfect
| I | accustomed |
| you | accustomed |
| he;she;it | accustomed |
| we | accustomed |
| you | accustomed |
| they | accustomed |
Pluperfect
| I | had accustomed |
| you | had accustomed |
| he;she;it | had accustomed |
| we | had accustomed |
| you | had accustomed |
| they | had accustomed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would accustom |
| you | would accustom |
| he;she;it | would accustom |
| we | would accustom |
| you | would accustom |
| they | would accustom |
Perfect
| I | would have accustomed |
| you | would have accustomed |
| he;she;it | would have accustomed |
| we | would have accustomed |
| you | would have accustomed |
| they | would have accustomed |
Imperative
| you | accustom |
| we | Let's accustom |
| you | accustom |
Verbs conjugated like 'accustom'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'accustom'
custom,
reaccustom,
unaccustom,
accost,
accuse,
accustomise,
accustomize,
ancestor,
disaccustom,
accent,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- make fit for any use by time or habit
- season
- to adjust to a change
- compensate
- to make familiar by use; to adjust or adapt to a change
- accommodate, adapt, adjust, compensate, habituate, inure, season, wont
- familiarize
- season, habituate, inure, use, wont
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The verb is from Middle English accustomen, from Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume.
2. The noun is from Middle English acustom. See: Old French '
acoustumer', French '
accoutumer'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] the year she has attained great dexterity in the use of the manual alphabet of the deaf mutes; and she spells out the words and sentences which she knows, so fast and so deftly, that only those accustomed to this language can follow with the eye the rapid motions of her fingers.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] song too, about a farmer sowing his seed: with corresponding action at such parts as ‘’ tis thus he sows, ’ ‘he turns him round, ’ ‘he claps his hands; ’ which gave it greater interest for them, and accustomed them to act together, in an orderly manner. They appeared exceedingly well-taught, and not better taught than fed; for a more chubby-looking full-waistcoated set of boys, I never saw.
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[...] or partition between them, in their very nature present. A visitor, too, requires to reason and reflect a little, before the sight of a number of men engaged in ordinary labour, such as he is accustomed to out of doors, will impress him half as strongly as the contemplation of the same persons in the same place and garb would, if they were occupied in some task, marked and degraded everywhere as [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ I am not accustomed to hear my wife spoken of with such freedom, ” said Mr. Shelby, dryly.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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* * * * * To an Englishman, accustomed to the paraphernalia of Westminster Hall, an American Court of Law is as odd a sight as, I suppose, an English Court of Law would be to an American. Except in the Supreme Court at Washington (where [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] work too. Perhaps it is above their station to indulge in such amusements, on any terms. Are we quite sure that we in England have not formed our ideas of the ‘station ’ of working people, from accustoming ourselves to the contemplation of that class as they are, and not as they might be ? I think that if we examine our own feelings, we shall find that the pianos, and the circulating libraries, and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] I know, to make the people less hard in their bargains, or more equal in their dealings. As I never heard of its working that effect anywhere else, I infer that it never will, here. Indeed, I am accustomed, with reference to great professions and severe faces, to judge of the goods of the other world pretty much as I judge of the goods of this; and whenever I see a dealer in such commodities with too [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Haley, accustomed to strike the balance of probabilities between lies of greater or lesser magnitude, thought that it lay in favor of the dirt road aforesaid. The mention of the thing he thought he perceived was [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ And pray, what sort of a road may that be ? ” says some eastern traveller, who has been accustomed to connect no ideas with a railroad, but those of smoothness or speed.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] on the other side of their mouths presently. ’ But interruptions are rare; the speaker being usually heard in silence. There are more quarrels than with us, and more threatenings than gentlemen are accustomed to exchange in any civilised society of which we have record: but farm-yard imitations have not as yet been imported from the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The feature in oratory which appears [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)