FAMILIARIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does familiarize mean? 

• FAMILIARIZE (verb)
  The verb FAMILIARIZE has 1 sense:

1. make familiar or conversant with

  Familiarity information: FAMILIARIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILIARIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they familiarize    ... he / she / it familiarizes   
Past simple: familiarized   
Past participle: familiarized   
-ing form: familiarizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make familiar or conversant with

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

acquaint; familiarise; familiarize

Context example:

We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings

Hypernyms (to "familiarize" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Verb group:

acquaint; introduce; present (cause to come to know personally)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "familiarize"):

orient (familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances)

verse (familiarize through thorough study or experience)

get into (familiarize oneself thoroughly with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

familiarization (the experience of becoming familiar with something)

 Context examples 

I was trying to familiarize my mind with the worst, and to present to myself the arrangements we should have to make for the future in their sternest aspect, when a hackney-chariot coming after me, and stopping at my very feet, occasioned me to look up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But when the second moment had passed, when she found every doubt, every solicitude removed, compared her situation with what so lately it had been,—saw him honourably released from his former engagement, saw him instantly profiting by the release, to address herself and declare an affection as tender, as constant as she had ever supposed it to be,—she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity;—and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I soon grew so familiarized to the sight of spirits, that after the third or fourth time they gave me no emotion at all: or, if I had any apprehensions left, my curiosity prevailed over them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I shut him out on the landing to wait for the answer, and went into my chambers again, in such a nervous state that I was fain to lay the letter down on my breakfast table, and familiarize myself with the outside of it a little, before I could resolve to break the seal.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)