All 3 Uses
acquaint
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- John Monks, Jr., quoting a Marine on Bougainville, described what night was like: "From seven o'clock in the evening till dawn, with only centipedes and lizards and scorpions and mosquitoes begging to get acquainted—wet, cold, exhausted, but unable to sleep—you lay there and shivered and thought and hated and prayed.†
Chpt 4.acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- She composed a letter to the Congressman from the Weslaco district, Milton H. West, signing herself "Mrs. E. F. Block," and using Ed's address in the Rio Grande Valley: In studying the picture of the famous flagraising on the peak of Suribachi I was convinced that the Marine at the base was my son, and began writing to several Marines that I was acquainted with to inquire if my son was the one in the picture and have received assurance from them that it was, but could not get definite proof until I got in touch with Ira Hamilton Hayes one of the survivors of the flagraising and received a lengthy letter from him identifying and verifying that it was my son...The Congressman forwarded both le†
Chpt 17.
- The Chicago police soon grew as acquainted with him as the Phoenix police had been.†
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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)