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familiarizing

familiarizing is the present participle and gerund 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.

Questions about familiarizing

What is familiarizing the present participle and gerund of?
Familiarizing is the present participle and gerund of familiarize.

Words near familiarizing in the dictionary

  1. familiarize
  2. familiarized
  3. familiarizer
  4. familiarizers
  5. familiarizes
  6. familiarizing
  7. familiarly
  8. familiarness
  9. familiars
  10. familiary
  11. Familias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: familiarizing (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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