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refamiliarize

refamiliarize is the alternative spelling of refamiliarise.

Meaning of refamiliarise

Verb

refamiliarise (third-person singular simple present refamiliarises, present participle refamiliarising, simple past and past participle refamiliarised)

  1. To familiarise with something one previously was familiar with.

Forms of refamiliarize

third-person singular presentrefamiliarizes
present participlerefamiliarizing
past participlerefamiliarized
pastrefamiliarized

Origin of refamiliarize

From re- + familiar + -ize.

Questions about refamiliarize

What is refamiliarize the alternative spelling of?
Refamiliarize is the alternative spelling of refamiliarise.

Words near refamiliarize in the dictionary

  1. refamiliarise
  2. refamiliarised
  3. refamiliarises
  4. refamiliarising
  5. refamiliarization
  6. refamiliarize
  7. refamiliarized
  8. refamiliarizes
  9. refamiliarizing
  10. refan
  11. refanned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refamiliarize (page history and authors); refamiliarise (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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