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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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Unlike other birds that live on the forest floor, trumpeters are not particularly shy and readily habituate to the presence of humans.
Prompts can be used to habituate people to the new behaviour over time until it becomes automatic.
There is a large body of anecdotal evidence to suggest that elephants habituate to gunshots if exposed to them for a prolonged period of time.
A basis for such abnormality has been identified in a defective ability to habituate to repetitive sensorial stimulation.
Western gorillas are widely acknowledged to be difficult to habituate to human presence, thereby limiting tourism potential.
Typically what you habituate to are stimuli of no proven consequence like the clothes on your body or the ticking of the clock.

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