reacquaint
Americanverb (used with object)
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Explanation
To reacquaint is to get to know someone again, or to become familiar with something once more. If you move back to Boston after several years in Tokyo, you might have to reacquaint yourself with the subway system. When you meet your best kindergarten pal again after years apart, you're going to have to reacquaint yourselves. And if you haven't ridden a bike for ten years, you'll need some time to reacquaint yourself with riding before you can ride on the street with confidence. Reacquaint adds the Latin-derived prefix re-, "again or anew," to acquaint, from the Vulgar Latin accognitare, "to make known."
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A chime brings the sound bath to its formal end, signaling us to reacquaint ourselves with the physical present, to officially “wake up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Parents of teenagers demanding driving lessons will quickly reacquaint themselves with what some car manufacturers call the passenger-side assist grip.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Jill Lepore: I really wanted to reclaim and reacquaint readers with the idea of amendment, or what I call in the book “the philosophy of amendment,” as a founding American democratic and constitutional principle.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
We had to learn how to tip again, to say please and thank you; we had to reacquaint ourselves with patience.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024
I spent the first five minutes just trying to relax and to reacquaint myself with the controls and the rhythm of the game.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
That Amziah apparently knows everyone in the vicinity makes it strange that the focus of the film turns to someone with whom he only recently got reacquainted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
And, of course, be reacquainted with one from his recent past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2025
Accusations of AI use are concerning, sure, but couldn’t they also result in a grammatical Streisand effect of people learning about or becoming reacquainted with the multipurpose mark?
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025
A number of drivers had off-track moments as they reacquainted themselves with the Shanghai track, which has been freshly resurfaced for this year's race, including Norris and Leclerc.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
Slowly, tentatively, Linda and I began the process of becoming reacquainted.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
On top of reacquainting the populace with a story that most of us have not thought much about since that middle-school project or college classics class, “The Odyssey” is offering a lesson in “premium formats.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
He was recalled on Friday and spent much of pregame happily reacquainting himself with coaches, teammates and staffers.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
What gives me the most hope is reacquainting myself with the long lineage of people who fought to oppose it and the victories that have been won against great odds.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2022
I’ve spent hours slicing through cute blue slimes in Dragon Warrior III and reacquainting myself with a decades-old team of monsters in Pokémon Yellow.
From The Verge ● Dec. 13, 2021
Maybe I’ll cool the reacquainting with Sandra for a while.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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