HABITUATE Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

habituate

verb

hə-ˈbi-chə-ˌwāt

Definition of habituate

as in to haunt

to go to or spend time in often the sort of lounge lizard known to habituate bars and nightclubs

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Recent Examples of habituate With active conflicts in many parts of the world such as Russia-Ukraine, Pakistan-Afghanistan, and in the Middle East, or humanitarian disaster as in Somalia, the people and states in the world are becoming increasingly war-habituated. — Debidatta A. Mahapatra, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026 Or the ways in which both adult-content sites such as OnlyFans and chatbot platforms habituate users (primarily men) to intimate relationships that are entirely sycophantic and affirming. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026 The process of learning to suppress a response to the rewarding stimulus happens at the level of the reward system—there is a decrease in the size of the dopamine release caused by a particular reward cue once the circuit has become habituated. — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026 But last year, one of the state’s 10 resurgent wolf packs became unusually habituated to hunting and eating livestock instead of wild prey. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for habituate

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As a result, the Owens women — with Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing back as the witchy aunts of Bullock and Kidman’s characters — must reunite to finally break the curse that has haunted their family.

— Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
Filming has now begun on location in Malta, with Winstone starring as Alan ‘Razor’ Sharp, a former SAS operative haunted by a botched mission in the 1990s that left his reputation in tatters and his best friend dead.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of haunt

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Layla and the kids never made the move to Tuscaloosa, leaving Kiffin to go off the rails, frequenting Tuscaloosa-area bars.

— John Talty, Vanity Fair, 2 Sep. 2026
This museum, the former home and studio of Pritzker-Prize-winning architect Luis Barragán, is frequented by architecture and design lovers.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026

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Chinese state media, including the Communist Party's flagship newspaper, People's Daily, gave extensive coverage to Xi's encounters with other visiting leaders on Tuesday, but made no mention of the meeting with Pezeshkian.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Van Noy visited the team’s TCO Performance Center on Tuesday.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026

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