First Known Use: circa 1837
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cognize
verb cog·nize \käg-ˈnīz, ˈkäg-ˌ\
cog·nizedcog·niz·ing
Definition of COGNIZE
transitive verb
: know, understand
— cog·niz·er noun
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Origin of COGNIZE
back-formation from cognizance
Related to COGNIZE
- Synonyms
- appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch, catch on (to), comprehend, compass, conceive, cotton (to or on to), decipher, decode, dig, discern, get, grasp, grok, intuit, know, make, make out, perceive, recognize, register, savvy, see, seize, sense, tumble (to), twig, understand
- Antonyms
- miss
Rhymes with COGNIZE
abscise, advise, apprise, apprize, arise, assize, baptize, bite-size, breadthwise, capsize, chastise, clockwise, coastwise, comprise, crabwise, crack wise, crosswise, demise, despise, devise, disguise, disprize, door prize, downsize, earthrise, edgewise, emprise, endwise, excise, fanwise, franchise, full-size, grecize, high-rise, incise, king-size, leastwise, lengthwise, Levi's, life-size, likewise, low-rise, man-size, mid-rise, midsize, misprize, moonrise, nowise, outsize, piecewise, pint-size, premise, quantize, queen-size, remise, reprise, revise, rightsize, slantwise, streetwise, stylize, suffice, sunrise, surmise, surprise, trim size, twin-size, unwise, uprise
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