Acquaint

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To cause to come to know personally.
  • transitive verb. To make familiar.
  • transitive verb. To inform.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Acquainted; personally or mutually known: as, we are not acquaint.
  • noun. An acquaintance.
  • To cause to have acquaintance or be more or less familiar; make conversant: used with with: as, to acquaint one's self, or make one's self acquainted, with a subject; to make persons (to be) acquainted with each other.
  • To furnish with knowledge or information (about); make conversant by notice or communication: with with before the subject of information, and formerly sometimes with of: as, to acquaint a friend with one's proceedings.
  • Synonyms To acquaint (with), make known (to), familiarize (with), introduce (to). To inform (of), communicate (to), apprise (of), mention (to), signify (to), intimate (to), disclose (to), reveal (to), tell (to). See announce and inform.
  • To become acquainted.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Acquainted.
  • transitive verb. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.
  • transitive verb. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence.
  • transitive verb. To familiarize; to accustom.
  • transitive verb. to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar.
  • verb. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant.
  • verb. To familiarize; to accustom.
  • adjective. Acquainted.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause to come to know personally
  • verb. inform
  • verb. make familiar or conversant with
  • Word Usage
    "I refer the way and manner I was apprehended, to the bearer, and shall only, in short, acquaint your Grace with the demands, which are, that your Grace shall discharge him of all soumes he owes your Grace, and give him the soume of 3400 merks for his loss and damages sustained by him, both at Craigrostown and at his house,"
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    To  acquainted  be  cognizant  familiar  
    Hypernym
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    inform  
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