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habituate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of HABITUATE

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

Synonyms affect, habituate, hang (at), haunt, resort (to), visit

Related Words patronize; attend, take in; infest, invade, overrun, swarm; call (on or upon), drop by, drop in, pop (in), run (in), stop (in or by); camp (out in), sojourn (at), stay (at), stop (over), tarry (in)

Near Antonyms dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, shake

Antonyms avoid, shun

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