familiarize
verb (used with object)
to make (onself or another person) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
were familiarizing
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past progressiveof familiarize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Those engaged were familiarizing themselves with the books in which names were to be entered.
From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Albert Bigelow Paine
It is high time that our young people were familiarizing themselves with the facts, for this is preëminently the question of to-day.
From Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose
