Word Meanings - FAMILIARIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self

Additional info about word: FAMILIARIZE

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FAMILIARIZE)

• Accustom
• Habituate
• familiarize
• form
• inure
• train
• reconcile

Related words: (words related to FAMILIARIZE)

• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• TRAIN
  1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." Milton. 2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. Halliwell. With
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• ACCUSTOMABLE
  Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.
• RECONCILE
  1. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. We pray
• TRAINER
  1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
• HABITUATE
  1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an
• TRAIN DISPATCHER
  An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.
• TRAINBEARER
  One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
• ACCUSTOMABLY
  According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.
• TRAINY
  Belonging to train oil. Gay.
• ACCUSTOMARY
  Usual; customary. Featley.
• TRAIN OIL
  Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
• FAMILIARIZE
  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. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self
• RECONCILEMENT
  Reconciliation. Milton.
• INUREMENT
  Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.
• TRAINBAND
  A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace
• RECONCILER
  One who reconciles.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• IRRECONCILEMENT
  The state or quality of being unreconciled; disagreement.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.
• DETRAIN
  To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. London Graphic.
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• QUENOUILLE TRAINING
  A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.