familiarises

Introduces someone to

Familiarises is the British spelling of familiarizes, meaning to make someone acquainted with something: The training course familiarises new employees with company procedures.

You can familiarise yourself with a subject by studying it, or familiarise others by teaching them.

The process turns the unfamiliar into the known.

acclimatising

accustoms

Makes gradually comfortable with

habituates · acclimatizes · attunes · seasons · hardens · inures · desensitizes · normalizes · warms up · breaks in

introducing

acquaints

Makes aware of

educates · exposes · presents · initiates · onboards · welcomes · guides · shows · demonstrates · breaks in

teaching

instructs

Imparts knowledge or orders

tutors · coaches · drills · grounds · prepares · equips · enlightens · imparts · apprentices · mentors

Opposites
knowledge/acquaintance

familiarisesconfuses

Causes mental disarray

mystifies · bewilders · obscures · perplexes · disorients

social/relational connection

familiarisesalienates

Causes emotional withdrawal

estranges · distances · isolates · separates · detaches

Family

familiarise, familiarising, familiarised, familiarisation

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