preacquaint

vt. 预先通知, 预告

词形变化

preacquainted preacquainting preacquaints 三单 preacquaints preacquainting 现在分词 preacquainted 过去式 preacquainted 过去分词

别名

pre-acquaint

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To acquaint beforehand.

    及物

    1633, James Shirley, The Witty Fair One, London: William Cooke, Act I, Scene 1, Wor[thy]. […] You haue not made your loue knowne to my Neece yet. Aym[well]. No, my intention was to preacquaint you.

    1969, Tibor Agoston, Insight Therapy, State of Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction, Part 4, Chapter 110, p. 215, […] we may describe differential dynamics as a gallery of disease patterns that may preacquaint the therapist with the picture which is likely to emerge when all the pieces are fitted together.

词源

From pre- + acquaint.

来源：wiktionary