Usually means: Acquire knowledge or understanding of.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word familiarize:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. familiarize: Merriam-Webster
  2. familiarize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. familiarize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. familiarize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. familiarize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Familiarize, familiarize: Wordnik
  7. familiarize: Wiktionary
  8. familiarize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. familiarize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. familiarize: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Familiarize, familiarize: Dictionary.com
  12. familiarize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Familiarize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. familiarize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. familiarize: Rhymezone
  16. familiarize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. familiarize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. familiarize: FreeDictionary.org
  19. familiarize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. familiarize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. familiarize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. familiarize: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. familiarize: Idioms

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▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To make or become familiar with something or someone.

Similar:
acquaint, familiarise, accustom, custom, foreacquaint, habituate, get to know, know, get used, orient, more...

Opposite:
unfamiliarize, disorient, alienate, estranged, detach

Types:
acquaint, introduce, bring up, bring up to speed, more...

Phrases:
familiarize myself, familiarize and acquaint and orient, to familiarize yourself with, more...

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Similar:
acquaint, familiarise, accustom, custom, foreacquaint, habituate, get to know, know, get used, orient, more...

Opposite:
unfamiliarize, disorient, alienate, estranged, detach

Types:
acquaint, introduce, bring up, bring up to speed, more...

Phrases:
familiarize myself, familiarize and acquaint and orient, to familiarize yourself with, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     red,     orange, more...



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