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conditioned

verb

Meaning

  • To subject to the process of acclimation.

    "I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego."

  • To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

    "They were conditioning their shins in their karate class."

  • To place conditions or limitations upon.

  • To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

  • To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.

  • To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

  • To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

  • (colleges) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.

    "to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study"

  • To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

adjective

Meaning

  • Determined or dependent on some condition

  • Physically fit, especially as the result of exercise

  • Prepared for a specific use

  • Exhibiting a conditioned reflex