cognize
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.cog·nize
transitive verb \käg-ˈnīz, ˈkäg-ˌ\cog·nizedcog·niz·ing
Definition of COGNIZE
: know, understand
— cog·niz·er noun
Examples of COGNIZE
- <the philosopher's claim that we can never cognize—in a fundamental sense—anything>
Origin of COGNIZE
back-formation from cognizance
First Known Use: circa 1837
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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