All 8 Uses
acquaint
in
Murder On The Orient Express
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- My daughter always says: 'When Mamma's got a hunch you can bet your bottom dollar it's O.K.' Were you acquainted with any of the Armstrong family, Mrs. Hubbard?†
Chpt 2.4 *acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- Were you at any time acquainted with a family of the name of Armstrong-a family in which a tragedy occurred?†
Chpt 2.6
- The spelling of my country estate is a little difficult for those unacquainted with the language.†
Chpt 2.7unacquainted = not familiar withstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unacquainted means not and reverses the meaning of acquainted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- You were not acquainted with the dead man?†
Chpt 2.11acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- Motive-Was intimately acquainted with Armstrong family, and godmother to Sonia Armstrong.†
Chpt 3.1
- You did not acquaint me with that fact this morning, Madame la Comtesse.†
Chpt 3.4acquaint = inform (cause to know)
- If I had, I should hardly be likely to acquaint you with the fact.†
Chpt 3.6
- Therefore I concluded that Colonel Arbuthnot and Miss Debenham were in reality well acquainted and were for some reason pretending to be strangers.†
Chpt 3.9acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
Definitions:
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(1)
(acquaint) to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)