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."
Vocabulary lists containing reacquaint
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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
It would be an interesting and reflective way to reacquaint myself with the scale and beauty of my native land after nearly twenty years of living abroad.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
In an era newly reacquainted with debates about women’s roles in the home and workplace— about who cooks, who performs and who gets the credit — Felix feels quietly, surprisingly progressive.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
If it turns out progress was illusory we will at least have reacquainted ourselves with what optimism in the Mideast feels like—it feels energetic, like something that can get you through the next day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
He turned to an old colleague with whom he’d recently been reacquainted: Steven Lankford.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024
They have visited us twice and even flew down for my high school graduation, where they became reacquainted with Luke.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
He was recalled on Friday and spent much of pregame happily reacquainting himself with coaches, teammates and staffers.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
In the cadenza, he could have been a caged animal reacquainting itself with its own majesty.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
Since reacquainting with my old friend bouillon, I've begun sprinkling dashes of it into my paella, egg-and-vegetable stir-fries, and almost every soup and stew.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2022
It spends much of that time showing Obi-Wan reacquainting himself with the Force while also reestablishing just how terrifying Vader can be.
From The Verge ● Jun. 22, 2022
Maybe I’ll cool the reacquainting with Sandra for a while.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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