Used To Meaning

(idiomatic, with noun phrase) Accustomed to, tolerant or accepting of.

Example:   I am used to cleaning up other people’s mess.  I became used to his ways.‎
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, Mr. Pratt's Patients:
  â€œWell,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
  He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.

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