familiarize

familiarize is a 11-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 25 in Scrabble and 27 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 25 · Words With Friends 27 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.
3. verb. make familiar or conversant with

   "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"

   "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings"

   Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise

Synonyms

acquaint, familiarise

Common word forms

familiarized, familiarizer, familiarizes, familiarizing

Words from these letters

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