reacquaint

verb

re·​ac·​quaint (ˌ)rē-ə-ˈkwānt 

reacquainted; reacquainting; reacquaints

transitive verb

: to give (someone) renewed knowledge and experience of something or someone : to make (someone) acquainted again

Each Olympic year, it takes a few nights of television to reacquaint yourself with the language of the Olympiad.

—Kate Rounds

… the painstaking detail of the narrative … should reacquaint a new generation with forgotten truths.

—David L. Kirp

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.

—Bill Bryson

reacquaintance

(ˌ)rē-ə-ˈkwān-tᵊn(t)s 

noun

… of course anything that promotes a reacquaintance with the Bible is all to the good.

—David S. Landes

Examples of reacquaint in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As if the year of the dragon wasn’t finished with us, January 2025 in Los Angeles brought the kind of sudden devastation that could force a postapocalyptic metropolis such as this to reacquaint itself with God, only to declare God dead again as existential crisis demands. —Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2025

At its annual budget forum in December, Connecticut Voices’ analysts urged legislators to reacquaint themselves with Lamont’s budget-balancing maneuvers in 2019 — and one in particular. —Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2025

As workers reacquaint themselves with the daily commute, the challenge of making this transition less burdensome becomes paramount. —Jack Kelly, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025

Directed by Neil Burger, espionage thriller Inheritance (out Jan. 24) stars Dynevor as Maya, who tries to get reacquainted with her estranged father (Rhys Ifans) and ends up neck-deep in an international conspiracy. —Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1642, in the meaning defined above