condition
/kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ verb C1- To subject to the process of acclimation. · I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.· Heat pumps condition the air on the first floor.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise. · They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something. · The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.
- To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
- To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
He/she/it conditions · Past conditioned · Past participle conditioned · -ing form conditioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- condition
- He/she/it
- conditions
- Past
- conditioned
- Past participle
- conditioned
- -ing form
- conditioning
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The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: “Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?”
Both were high, and yet my impression was that the condition was rather that of mental and nervous excitement than of any actual seizure.
He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both.
“Alas!” said the Horse, “if you really wish me to be in good condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more.”
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