habituate to

habituate (someone) to (something)

To cause someone to become familiar with or used to something. Luckily, the kids' new friends have habituated them to the neighborhood.
See also: habituate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

habituate someone to someone or something

to accustom someone to someone or something. Soon she will habituate the baby to the new feeding schedule. The office staff worked hard to habituate the new employee to the schedule.
See also: habituate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • habituate
  • habituate (someone) to (something)
  • get used to (someone or something)
  • it takes (some) getting used to
  • it takes getting used to
  • inure
  • inure (someone, something, or oneself) to (something)
  • inure to
  • unaccustomed
  • unaccustomed to
References in periodicals archive
Readers will habituate to drastic lifestyle changes by degrees, with the ultimate goal of a change in perception.
The Life-Transforming Diet
Various invertebrates such as honeybees (Braun and Bicker, 1992), crickets (Engle and Hoy 1999), leeches (Burrell et al., 2001), flatworms (Koopowitz, 1974), and mollusks (Bristol and Carew, 2005) have been shown to habituate to irrelevant stimuli.
Habituation and Dishabituation to a Vibrational Stimulus by a Millipede Orthoporus Texicolens
"It could be that if people play these types of computer games at home and habituate to the appearance of motion, they'll experience less motion sickness in the real world," he said.
Computer games vs. motion sickness. (News & Notes)
Repeated exposure to the testing environment is thought to allow the volunteer to habituate to the anomalies of that environment and thus yield results from the plateau of the learning curve that can be compared with results from future testing.
Adjustment to a peak physical work capacity treadmill test. (Professional Communications)
The lobsters (tested one at a time) were given 30 min to habituate to the flume and settle in to this shelter before the plume was turned on.
Antennule Use by the American Lobster, Homarus americanus, During Chemo-orientation in Three Turbulent Odor Plumes
Fish and Wildlife Service's Chris Servheen: "I think grizzlies can habituate to anything, given enough time and exposure.
The grizzly and the hand of man