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Familiarize

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.

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Verb group 6

Introduce 84% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Introduce 84% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Present 84% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Present 84% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 1

Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Manner of action 2

Orient 76% connected

Rising, as the sun.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.

Verse 76% connected

A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 1

Acquaint 92% connected

Acquainted.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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