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What does habituate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word habituate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
  2. To settle as an inhabitant.
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Stress, however, may affect breeding success and the decision to habituate breeding females should be made with caution.
Prompts can be used to habituate people to the new behaviour over time until it becomes automatic.
Every hour we hear tweeters remonstrating with the very site they habituate.
Even so, black bears habituate quickly to handouts given by tourists, and this lack of fear of humans often leads to conflicts.
Unlike other birds that live on the forest floor, trumpeters are not particularly shy and readily habituate to the presence of humans.
To be an addict, by definition, is to habituate to something compulsively or obsessively.

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