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familiarized

familiarized is the simple past and past participle of familiarize.

Meaning of familiarize

Verb

familiarize (third-person singular simple present familiarizes, present participle familiarizing, simple past and past participle familiarized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, ambitransitive) To make or become familiar with something or someone.
    • I took some time to familiarize myself with the layout of her kitchen before I got to cooking for her.

Words formed from familiarized

Questions about familiarized

What is familiarized the simple past and past participle of?
Familiarized is the simple past and past participle of familiarize.

Words near familiarized in the dictionary

  1. familiarity
  2. familiarity breeds contempt
  3. familiarization
  4. familiarizations
  5. familiarize
  6. familiarized
  7. familiarizer
  8. familiarizers
  9. familiarizes
  10. familiarizing
  11. familiarly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: familiarized (page history and authors); familiarize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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