Familiarize

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Familiarize \Fa*mil"iar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Familiarized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Familiarizing}.] [Cf. F.
     familiariser.]
     1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom;
        to make well known by practice or converse; as, to
        familiarize one's self with scenes of distress; we


        familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as,
        to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a
        science.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  familiarize
       v : make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself
           with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with
           the new surroundings" [syn: {familiarise}, {acquaint}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "familiarize":
     acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, acquaint, adapt,
     adjust, advertise, advertise of, advise, apprise, break, break in,
     brief, bring word, case harden, communicate, condition, confirm,
     disclose, domesticate, domesticize, enlighten, establish, fix,
     gentle, give notice, give the facts, give word, habituate, harden,
     housebreak, inform, instruct, inure, leave word, let know,
     mention to, naturalize, notify, orient, orientate, report, season,
     send word, serve notice, speak, tame, tell, train, use, verse,
     wont