zed: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of zed
- authorized«Word Popularity Bar5/5
authorized
- adjective endowed with authority
authorised.
- verb grant authorization or clearance for
authorize; clear; authorise; pass.
- Clear the manuscript for publication
- The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography
- adjective endowed with authority
- recognized5/5
recognized
- adjective satellite generally approved or compelling recognition
recognised; accepted.
- several accepted techniques for treating the condition
- his recognized superiority in this kind of work
- verb accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
recognize; know; recognise; acknowledge.
- The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne
- We do not recognize your gods
- adjective satellite generally approved or compelling recognition
- emphasized5/5
emphasized
- adjective satellite spoken with emphasis
emphatic; emphasised.
- an emphatic word
- verb to stress, single out as important
emphasise; accent; punctuate; stress; accentuate; emphasize.
- Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet
- adjective satellite spoken with emphasis
- organized5/5
organized
- adjective formed into a structured or coherent whole
- verb create (as an entity)
organize; organise; form.
- social groups form everywhere
- They formed a company
- adjective formed into a structured or coherent whole
- characterized5/5
characterize
- verb describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
qualify; characterise.
- You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist
- This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover
- verb be characteristic of
characterise.
- What characterizes a Venetian painting?
- verb describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
- analyzed5/5
analyzed
- adjective examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts
- the analyzed data indicated surprising trends
- a carefully analyzed poem can be like a dead butterfly pinned to a board
- verb consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
canvas; study; analyse; examine; canvass; analyze.
- analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare
- analyze the evidence in a criminal trial
- analyze your real motives
- adjective examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts
- sized5/5
sized
- adjective having a specified size
- verb cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)
size.
- adjective having a specified size
- generalized5/5
generalized
- adjective satellite not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment
generalised.
- the hedgehog is a primitive and generalized mammal
- verb draw from specific cases for more general cases
extrapolate; generalize; infer; generalise.
- adjective satellite not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment
- realized5/5
realized
- adjective satellite successfully completed or brought to an end
accomplished; completed; realised.
- his mission accomplished he took a vacation
- the completed project
- the joy of a realized ambition overcame him
- verb be fully aware or cognizant of
recognise; agnize; recognize; realise; agnise; realize.
- adjective satellite successfully completed or brought to an end
- specialized5/5
specialized
- adjective developed or designed for a special activity or function
specialised.
- a specialized tool
- verb become more focus on an area of activity or field of study
specialise; narrow down; specialize; narrow.
- She specializes in Near Eastern history
- adjective developed or designed for a special activity or function
- seized5/5
seize
- verb take hold of; grab
clutch; prehend.
- The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter
- She clutched her purse
- The mother seized her child by the arm
- Birds of prey often seize small mammals
- verb take or capture by force
- The terrorists seized the politicians
- The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages
- verb take hold of; grab
- summarized5/5
summarize
- verb give a summary (of)
resume; sum up; summarise.
- he summed up his results
- I will now summarize
- verb be a summary of
summarise; sum up; sum.
- The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper
- verb give a summary (of)
- utilized5/5
utilized
- adjective satellite put to use
utilised.
- verb put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
employ; apply; use; utilize; utilise.
- use your head!
- we only use Spanish at home
- I can't use this tool
- Apply a magnetic field here
- This thinking was applied to many projects
- How do you utilize this tool?
- I apply this rule to get good results
- use the plastic bags to store the food
- He doesn't know how to use a computer
- adjective satellite put to use
- criticized5/5
criticize
- verb find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws
criticise; knock; pick apart.
- The paper criticized the new movie
- Don't knock the food--it's free
- verb act as a critic
criticise.
- Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either
- verb find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws
- randomized5/5
randomized
- adjective satellite set up or distributed in a deliberately random way
randomised.
- verb arrange in random order
randomize; randomise.
- Randomize the order of the numbers
- adjective satellite set up or distributed in a deliberately random way
- standardized5/5
standardized
- adjective satellite brought into conformity with a standard
standardised.
- standardized education
- verb cause to conform to standard or norm
standardise; standardize.
- The weights and measures were standardized
- adjective satellite brought into conformity with a standard
- capitalized4/5
capitalize
- verb draw advantages from
take advantage; capitalise.
- he is capitalizing on her mistake
- she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover
- verb supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders
capitalise.
- verb draw advantages from
- symbolized4/5
symbolize
- verb express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
symbolise; typify; represent; stand for.
- What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
- verb represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols
symbolise.
- The poet symbolizes love in this poem
- These painters believed that artists should symbolize
- verb express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
- computerized4/5
computerize
- verb provide with computers
computerise.
- Our office is fully computerized now
- verb store in a computer
computerise.
- computerized dictionary
- verb provide with computers
- publicized4/5
publicized
- adjective made known; especially made widely known
publicised.
- verb make public
publicize; bare; publicise; air.
- She aired her opinions on welfare
- adjective made known; especially made widely known
- formalized4/5
formalized
- adjective concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art)
formalistic; formalised.
- highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot'
- verb make formal or official
formalize; formalise.
- We formalized the appointment and gave him a title
- adjective concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art)
- localized4/5
localized
- adjective satellite confined or restricted to a particular location
localised.
- the localized infection formed a definite abscess
- verb identify the location or place of
localize; localise; place.
- We localized the source of the infection
- adjective satellite confined or restricted to a particular location
- civilized4/5
civilized
- adjective having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
civilised.
- terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world
- verb teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
educate; civilise; school; train; cultivate; civilize.
- Cultivate your musical taste
- Train your tastebuds
- She is well schooled in poetry
- adjective having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
- centralized4/5
centralized
- adjective drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority
centralised.
- centralized control of emergency relief efforts
- centralized government
- verb make central
centralize; concentrate; centralise.
- The Russian government centralized the distribution of food
- adjective drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority
- squeezed4/5
squeeze
- noun the act of gripping and pressing firmly
squeezing.
- he gave her cheek a playful squeeze
- noun a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high
liquidity crisis; credit crunch.
- noun the act of gripping and pressing firmly
- normalized4/5
normalize
- verb become normal or return to its normal state
normalise.
- Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon
- verb make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
normalise; renormalise; renormalize.
- normalize relations with China
- normalize the temperature
- normalize the spelling
- verb become normal or return to its normal state
- industrialized4/5
industrialized
- adjective satellite made industrial; converted to industrialism
industrialised.
- industrialized areas
- verb organize (the production of something) into an industry
industrialize; industrialise.
- The Chinese industrialized textile production
- adjective satellite made industrial; converted to industrialism
- polarized4/5
polarize
- verb cause to vibrate in a definite pattern
polarise.
- polarize light waves
- verb cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions
polarise.
- verb cause to vibrate in a definite pattern
- decentralized4/5
decentralized
- adjective withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities
decentralised.
- a decentralized school administration
- verb make less central
decentralise; decentralize; deconcentrate.
- After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized
- adjective withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities
- individualized4/5
individualized
- adjective satellite made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual
personalized; individualised; personalised.
- personalized luggage
- personalized advice
- verb make or mark or treat as individual
individualize; individualise.
- The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone
- adjective satellite made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual
- stabilized4/5
stabilized
- adjective satellite made stable or firm
stabilised.
- verb make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium
stabilise; stabilize.
- The drug stabilized her blood pressure
- stabilize prices
- adjective satellite made stable or firm
- mobilized4/5
mobilize
- verb make ready for action or use
mobilise; marshal; summon.
- marshal resources
- verb call to arms; of military personnel
rally; mobilise; call up.
- verb make ready for action or use
- hypothesized4/5
hypothesize
- verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
conjecture; theorize; theorise; hypothesise; suppose; speculate; hypothecate.
- Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
- verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- customized4/5
customize
- verb make to specifications
custom-make; customise; tailor-make.
- I had this desk custom-made for me
- verb make according to requirements
customise.
- customize a car
- verb make to specifications
- personalized4/5
personalized
- adjective satellite made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual
individualized; individualised; personalised.
- personalized luggage
- personalized advice
- verb make personal or more personal
individualize; personalize; personalise; individualise.
- personalized service
- adjective satellite made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual
- glazed4/5
glazed
- adjective satellite (used of eyes) lacking liveliness
glassy.
- empty eyes
- a glassy stare
- his eyes were glazed over with boredom
- verb coat with a glaze
glaze.
- the potter glazed the dishes
- glaze the bread with eggwhite
- adjective satellite (used of eyes) lacking liveliness
- internalized4/5
internalize
- verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
interiorize; interiorise; internalise.
- internalize a belief
- verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
- visualized4/5
visualized
- adjective satellite seen in the mind as a mental image
envisioned; visualised; pictured.
- the glory of his envisioned future
- the snow-covered Alps pictured in her imagination
- the visualized scene lacked the ugly details of real life
- verb imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
picture; visualize; envision; figure; visualise; image; fancy; project; see.
- I can't see him on horseback!
- I can see what will happen
- I can see a risk in this strategy
- adjective satellite seen in the mind as a mental image
- synchronized4/5
synchronized
- adjective satellite operating in unison
synchronised.
- the synchronized flapping of a bird's wings
- verb make synchronous and adjust in time or manner
synchronize; synchronise; sync.
- Let's synchronize our efforts
- adjective satellite operating in unison
- oxidized4/5
oxidized
- adjective combined with or having undergone a chemical reaction with oxygen
oxidised.
- the oxidized form of iodine
- verb enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide
oxidize; oxidise; oxidate.
- This metal oxidizes easily
- adjective combined with or having undergone a chemical reaction with oxygen
- gazed4/5
gaze
- noun a long fixed look
regard.
- he fixed his paternal gaze on me
- verb look at with fixed eyes
stare.
- The students stared at the teacher with amazement
- noun a long fixed look
- unauthorized4/5
unauthorized
- adjective not endowed with authority
unauthorised.
- adjective satellite without official authorization
unauthorised; wildcat.
- an unauthorized strike
- wildcat work stoppage
- adjective not endowed with authority
- synthesized4/5
synthesize
- verb combine so as to form a more complex, product
synthesise.
- his operas synthesize music and drama in perfect harmony
- The liver synthesizes vitamins
- verb combine and form a synthesis
- Vitamin D only synthesizes when sunlight is available
- verb combine so as to form a more complex, product
- institutionalized4/5
institutionalized
- adjective officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution
institutionalised.
- had hopes of rehabilitating the institutionalized juvenile delinquents
- verb cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
commit; charge; send; institutionalize; institutionalise.
- After the second episode, she had to be committed
- he was committed to prison
- adjective officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution
- marginalized4/5
marginalize
- verb relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people
marginalise.
- We must not marginalize the poor in our society
- verb relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people
- optimized4/5
optimize
- verb make optimal; get the most out of; use best
optimise.
- optimize your resources
- verb modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost
optimise.
- optimize a computer program
- verb make optimal; get the most out of; use best
- categorized4/5
categorized
- adjective satellite arranged into categories
categorised.
- verb place into or assign to a category
categorize; categorise.
- Children learn early on to categorize
- adjective satellite arranged into categories
- idealized4/5
idealized
- adjective satellite exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence
idealised.
- verb consider or render as ideal
idealise; idealize.
- She idealized her husband after his death
- adjective satellite exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence
- minimized4/5
minimized
- adjective satellite reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree
- verb make small or insignificant
minimize; minimise.
- Let's minimize the risk
- adjective satellite reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree
- colonized4/5
colonized
- adjective satellite inhabited by colonists
colonised; settled.
- verb settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
colonize; colonise.
- Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century
- adjective satellite inhabited by colonists
- prized4/5
prize
- noun something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
award.
- the prize was a free trip to Europe
- noun goods or money obtained illegally
swag; booty; pillage; plunder; dirty money; loot.
- noun something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
- paralyzed4/5
paralyzed
- adjective satellite affected with paralysis
paralytic.
- verb make powerless and unable to function
paralyze; paralyse.
- The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation
- adjective satellite affected with paralysis
- apologized4/5
apologize
- verb acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
apologise.
- I apologized for being late
- He apologized for the many typoes
- verb defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
rationalize; apologise; rationalise; excuse; justify.
- rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior
- he rationalized his lack of success
- verb acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
- amazed4/5
amazed
- adjective satellite filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
astonished; astounded; stunned; astonied.
- an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation
- I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral
- astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing
- stood in stunned silence
- stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses
- verb affect with wonder
amaze; astonish; astound.
- Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!
- adjective satellite filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
- baptized4/5
baptized
- adjective having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism
baptised.
- verb administer baptism to
christen; baptise; baptize.
- The parents had the child baptized
- adjective having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism
- subsidized4/5
subsidized
- adjective satellite having partial financial support from public funds
subsidised.
- lived in subsidized public housing
- verb support through subsidies
subsidize; subsidise.
- The arts in Europe are heavily subsidized
- adjective satellite having partial financial support from public funds
- hospitalized4/5
hospitalize
- verb admit into a hospital
hospitalise.
- Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high
- verb admit into a hospital
- italicized3/5
italicize
- verb print in italics
italicise.
- verb print in italics
- stigmatized3/5
stigmatize
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
stigmatise; brand; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatise.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- itemized3/5
itemize
- verb specify individually
recite; itemise; enumerate.
- She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered
- The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug
- verb place on a list of items
itemise.
- itemize one's tax deductions
- verb specify individually
- epitomized3/5
epitomize
- verb embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of
typify; epitomise.
- The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition
- verb embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of
- conceptualized3/5
conceptualize
- verb have the idea for
gestate; conceive; conceptualise.
- He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients
- This library was well conceived
- verb have the idea for
- stylized3/5
stylized
- adjective satellite using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous
conventionalized; conventionalised; stylised.
- a stylized mode of theater production
- verb represent according to a conventional style
conventionalize; stylize; stylise.
- a stylized female head
- adjective satellite using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous
- socialized3/5
- crystallized3/5
crystallized
- adjective having become fixed and definite in form
crystallised.
- distinguish between crystallized and uncrystallized opinion"- Psychological Abstracts
- verb cause to take on a definite and clear shape
crystallise; crystalise; crystalize; crystallize.
- He tried to crystallize his thoughts
- adjective having become fixed and definite in form
- energized3/5
energize
- verb cause to be alert and energetic
arouse; energise; perk up; brace; stimulate.
- Coffee and tea stimulate me
- This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate
- verb raise to a higher energy level
energise; excite.
- excite the atoms
- verb cause to be alert and energetic
- naturalized3/5
naturalized
- adjective satellite introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
established.
- verb make into a citizen
naturalize; naturalise.
- The French family was naturalized last year
- adjective satellite introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
- popularized3/5
popularize
- verb cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
popularise; vulgarise; generalise; generalize; vulgarize.
- They popularized coffee in Washington State
- Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
- verb make understandable to the general public
popularise.
- Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
- verb cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
- privatized3/5
privatize
- verb change from governmental to private control or ownership
privatise.
- The oil industry was privatized
- verb change from governmental to private control or ownership
- fertilized3/5
fertilize
- verb provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
feed; fertilise.
- We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants
- verb make fertile or productive
fertilise; fecundate.
- The course fertilized her imagination
- verb provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- politicized3/5
politicize
- verb give a political character to
politicise.
- politicize the discussion
- verb give a political character to
- initialized3/5
initialize
- verb assign an initial value to a computer program
initialise.
- verb divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
initialise; format.
- Please format this disk before entering data!
- verb assign an initial value to a computer program
- rationalized3/5
rationalize
- verb defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
apologise; rationalise; excuse; apologize; justify.
- rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior
- he rationalized his lack of success
- verb weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
rationalise; cut; prune.
- We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet
- verb defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- theorized3/5
theorize
- verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
conjecture; hypothesize; theorise; hypothesise; suppose; speculate; hypothecate.
- Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
- verb construct a theory about
- Galileo theorized the motion of the stars
- verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- mechanized3/5
mechanized
- adjective satellite equipped with machinery
mechanised.
- a mechanized factory
- verb equip with armed and armored motor vehicles
mechanize; motorize; motorise; mechanise.
- mechanize armies
- adjective satellite equipped with machinery
- galvanized3/5
galvanize
- verb to stimulate to action
galvanise; startle.
- ..startled him awake
- galvanized into action
- verb cover with zinc
galvanise.
- galvanize steel
- verb to stimulate to action
- neutralized3/5
neutralized
- adjective satellite made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics
neutralised.
- verb make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
neutralize.
- The treaty neutralized the small republic
- adjective satellite made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics
- digitized3/5
digitize
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitise; digitalise; digitalize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- motorized3/5
motorized
- adjective equipped with a motor or motors
motorised; motored.
- a motorized wheelchair
- verb equip with a motor vehicle
motorize.
- The police around here are not motorized and patrol the streets on horseback
- adjective equipped with a motor or motors
- revolutionized3/5
revolutionize
- verb change radically
overturn; revolutionise.
- E-mail revolutionized communication in academe
- verb overthrow by a revolution, of governments
- verb change radically
- legalized3/5
legalize
- verb make legal
legitimatize; decriminalize; legitimatise; legalise; legitimise; legitimate; decriminalise; legitimize.
- Marijuana should be legalized
- verb make legal
- harmonized3/5
harmonized
- adjective satellite involving or characterized by harmony
harmonised; consonant; harmonical; harmonic.
- verb go together
accord; fit in; concord; consort; harmonise; harmonize; agree.
- The colors don't harmonize
- Their ideas concorded
- adjective satellite involving or characterized by harmony
- pressurized3/5
pressurize
- verb increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
supercharge; pressurise.
- verb maintain a certain pressure
pressurise.
- the airplane cabin is pressurized
- pressurize a space suit
- verb increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
- sensitized3/5
sensitized
- adjective satellite having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)
supersensitized; hypersensitive; supersensitive; sensitised; hypersensitized; supersensitised; hypersensitised; allergic.
- allergic children
- hypersensitive to pollen
- verb make sensitive or aware
sensify; sensitise; sensibilise; sensibilize; sensitize.
- He was not sensitized to her emotional needs
- adjective satellite having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)
- demoralized3/5
demoralized
- adjective satellite made less hopeful or enthusiastic
disheartened; demoralised; discouraged.
- desperate demoralized people looking for work
- felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem
- the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest
- verb corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
pervert; debase; profane; misdirect; subvert; debauch; deprave; vitiate; corrupt; demoralise; demoralize.
- debauch the young people with wine and women
- Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
- Do school counselors subvert young children?
- corrupt the morals
- adjective satellite made less hopeful or enthusiastic
- legitimized3/5
legitimize
- verb make legal
legitimatize; decriminalize; legitimatise; legalise; legalize; legitimise; legitimate; decriminalise.
- Marijuana should be legalized
- verb make legal
- nationalized3/5
nationalize
- verb put under state control or ownership
nationalise.
- Mitterand nationalized the banks
- verb make national in character or scope
nationalise.
- His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press
- verb put under state control or ownership
- commercialized3/5
commercialized
- adjective satellite organized principally for financial gain
commercialised.
- Christmas has become a commercialized spectacle
- verb exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality
commercialize.
- The hotel owners are commercializing the beaches
- adjective satellite organized principally for financial gain
- urbanized3/5
urbanized
- adjective satellite made urban in nature; taking on urban characteristics
urbanised.
- the urbanized Eastern states
- verb make more industrial or city-like
urbanise; urbanize.
- The area was urbanized after many people moved in
- adjective satellite made urban in nature; taking on urban characteristics
- liberalized3/5
liberalize
- verb make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules
liberalise.
- verb become more liberal
liberalise.
- The laws liberalized after Prohibition
- verb make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules
- immortalized3/5
immortalize
- verb be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
memorialise; commemorate; record; memorialize; immortalise.
- This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
- We memorialized the Dead
- verb make famous forever
eternalize; eternalise; eternize; eternise; immortalise.
- This melody immortalized its composer
- verb be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
- quantized3/5
quantized
- adjective of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states
quantal.
- verb approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values
quantize; quantise.
- adjective of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states
- serialized3/5
serialize
- verb arrange serially
serialise.
- Serialize the numbers
- verb arrange serially
- sexualized3/5
sexualize
- verb make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to
sexualise.
- The god was sexualized and married to another god
- Some languages sexualize all nouns and do not have a neuter gender
- verb make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to
- romanticized3/5
romanticize
- verb interpret romantically
glamourise; romanticise; glamorize.
- Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!
- verb make romantic in style
romanticise.
- The designer romanticized the little black dress
- verb interpret romantically
- feminized3/5
feminize
- verb assume (more) feminine characteristics
feminise.
- feminized language
- feminized frogs
- verb to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to
effeminise; effeminize; womanize; feminise.
- This hairdo feminizes the man
- verb assume (more) feminine characteristics
- westernized3/5
westernize
- verb make western in character
occidentalise; occidentalize; westernise.
- The country was Westernized after it opened up
- verb make western in character
- dazed3/5
dazed
- adjective satellite in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
stupefied; stupid; stunned.
- he had a dazed expression on his face
- lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow
- was stupid from fatigue
- verb to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
dazzle; bedazzle; daze.
- She was dazzled by the bright headlights
- adjective satellite in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
- blazed3/5
blaze
- noun a strong flame that burns brightly
blazing.
- the blaze spread rapidly
- noun a cause of difficulty and suffering
hell.
- war is hell
- go to blazes
- noun a strong flame that burns brightly
- victimized3/5
victimized
- adjective satellite of persons; taken advantage of
exploited; put-upon; victimised; used; ill-used.
- after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used
- verb make a victim of
victimise; victimize.
- I was victimized by this con-man
- adjective satellite of persons; taken advantage of
- catalyzed3/5
catalyze
- verb change by catalysis or cause to catalyze
catalyse.
- verb change by catalysis or cause to catalyze
- memorized3/5
memorize
- verb commit to memory; learn by heart
learn; memorise; con.
- Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?
- verb commit to memory; learn by heart
- grazed3/5
grazed
- adjective satellite scraped or touched lightly in passing
- his grazed and bleeding arm proved he had been in the line of fire
- verb feed as in a meadow or pasture
browse; pasture; graze; range; crop.
- the herd was grazing
- adjective satellite scraped or touched lightly in passing
- maximized3/5
maximize
- verb make as big or large as possible
maximise.
- Maximize your profits!
- verb make the most of
maximise.
- He maximized his role
- verb make as big or large as possible
- ionized3/5
ionized
- adjective converted totally or partly into ions
ionised.
- verb become converted into ions
ionise; ionize.
- adjective converted totally or partly into ions
- buzzed3/5
buzz
- noun sound of rapid vibration
bombilation; bombination.
- the buzz of a bumble bee
- noun a confusion of activity and gossip
- the buzz of excitement was so great that a formal denial was issued
- noun sound of rapid vibration
- finalized3/5
finalize
- verb make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
nail down; settle; finalise.
- let's finalize the proposal
- verb make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- modernized3/5
modernized
- adjective satellite brought up to date
modernised.
- modernized methods
- verb make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
modernize; overhaul; modernise.
- You should overhaul your car engine
- overhaul the health care system
- adjective satellite brought up to date
- mesmerized3/5
mesmerized
- adjective satellite having your attention fixated as though by a spell
mesmerised; hypnotized; fascinated; spell-bound; spellbound; transfixed; hypnotised.
- verb attract strongly, as if with a magnet
bewitch; mesmerize; mesmerise; magnetize; magnetise; spellbind.
- She magnetized the audience with her tricks
- adjective satellite having your attention fixated as though by a spell
- sympathized3/5
sympathize
- verb share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of
sympathise.
- verb be understanding of
understand; empathise; empathize; sympathise.
- You don't need to explain--I understand!
- verb share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of
- dramatized3/5
dramatize
- verb put into dramatic form
adopt; dramatise.
- adopt a book for a screenplay
- verb represent something in a dramatic manner
dramatise.
- These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth
- verb put into dramatic form
- prioritized3/5
prioritize
- verb assign a priority to
prioritise.
- we have too many things to do and must prioritize
- verb assign a priority to
- unionized3/5
unionized
- adjective not converted into ions
nonionic; nonionized; nonionised; unionised.
- verb recruit for a union or organize into a union
unionize; unionise.
- We don't allow people to come into our plant and try to unionize the workers
- adjective not converted into ions
- jeopardized3/5
jeopardize
- verb pose a threat to; present a danger to
jeopardise; peril; imperil; endanger; threaten; menace.
- The pollution is endangering the crops
- verb put at risk
stake; hazard; venture; adventure.
- I will stake my good reputation for this
- verb pose a threat to; present a danger to
- patronized3/5
patronized
- adjective having patronage or clients
patronised.
- street full of flourishing well-patronized shops
- verb assume sponsorship of
patronise; sponsor; patronize.
- adjective having patronage or clients
- actualized3/5
actualize
- verb make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
substantiate; realize; realise; actualise.
- our ideas must be substantiated into actions
- verb represent or describe realistically
actualise.
- verb make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
- revitalized3/5
revitalized
- adjective satellite restored to new life and vigor
revitalised.
- a revitalized economy
- a revitalized inner-city neighborhood
- verb restore strength
regenerate; revitalize.
- This food revitalized the patient
- adjective satellite restored to new life and vigor
- razed3/5
razed
- adjective satellite torn down and broken up
dismantled; demolished.
- verb tear down so as to make flat with the ground
rase; level; take down; dismantle; pull down; tear down; raze.
- The building was levelled
- adjective satellite torn down and broken up
- linearized3/5
linearize
- verb make linear or get into a linear form
linearise.
- a catalyst linearizes polyethylene
- verb make linear or get into a linear form
- hybridized3/5
hybridize
- verb breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
interbreed; crossbreed; cross; hybridise.
- cross a horse and a donkey
- Mendel tried crossbreeding
- these species do not interbreed
- verb breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
- homogenized3/5
homogenized
- adjective satellite formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance
homogenised.
- verb cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing
homogenise; homogenize.
- homogenize the main ingredients
- adjective satellite formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance
- anesthetized3/5
anesthetize
- verb administer an anesthetic drug to
anesthetise; anaesthetise; put under; anaesthetize; put out.
- The patient must be anesthetized before the operation
- anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth
- verb administer an anesthetic drug to
- ostracized3/5
ostracize
- verb expel from a community or group
blackball; shun; cast out; ban; ostracise; banish.
- verb avoid speaking to or dealing with
ostracise.
- Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me
- verb expel from a community or group
- hydrolyzed3/5
hydrolyze
- verb undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water
hydrolyse.
- verb undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water
- secularized3/5
secularize
- verb make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
secularise.
- Ataturk secularized Turkey
- verb transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
desacralize.
- verb make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
- immobilized3/5
immobilize
- verb hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital
immobilise.
- verb to hold fast or prevent from moving
immobilise; trap; pin.
- The child was pinned under the fallen tree
- verb hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital
- materialized3/5
materialize
- verb come into being; become reality
happen; materialise.
- Her dream really materialized
- verb come into being; become reality
- disorganized3/5
disorganized
- adjective lacking order or methodical arrangement or function
disorganised.
- a disorganized enterprise
- a thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose
- she was too disorganized to be an agreeable roommate
- verb remove the organization from
disorganise; disorganize.
- adjective lacking order or methodical arrangement or function
- reorganized3/5
reorganized
- adjective satellite organized again
reorganised.
- a reorganized business
- verb organize anew
reorganize; shake up; reorganise.
- We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under
- adjective satellite organized again
- unrecognized3/5
unrecognized
- adjective satellite not recognized
unrecognised.
- he was unrecognized in his disguise
- adjective satellite not having a secure reputation
unrecognised.
- short stories by unrecognized writers
- adjective satellite not recognized
- scrutinized3/5
scrutinize
- verb to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
size up; take stock; scrutinise.
- he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror
- verb examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
audit; inspect; scrutinise.
- audit accounts and tax returns
- verb to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
- oversized3/5
oversized
- adjective satellite larger than normal for its kind
outsize; outsized; oversize.
- adjective satellite larger than normal for its kind
- globalized3/5
globalize
- verb make world-wide in scope or application
globalise.
- Markets are being increasingly globalized
- verb make world-wide in scope or application
- traumatized3/5
traumatize
- verb inflict a trauma upon
shock; traumatise.
- verb inflict a trauma upon
- crazed3/5
crazed
- adjective satellite driven insane
half-crazed; deranged.
- verb cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind
madden; craze.
- adjective satellite driven insane
- metabolized3/5
metabolize
- verb produce by metabolism
metabolise.
- verb produce by metabolism
- sterilized3/5
sterilized
- adjective satellite made infertile
sterilised.
- verb make free from bacteria
sterilize; sterilise.
- adjective satellite made infertile
- penalized3/5
penalize
- verb impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
punish; penalise.
- The students were penalized for showing up late for class
- we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again
- verb impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
- ritualized3/5
ritualize
- verb make or evolve into a ritual
ritualise.
- The growing up of children has become ritualized in many cultures
- verb make or evolve into a ritual
- agonized3/5
agonized
- adjective satellite expressing pain or agony
agonised.
- agonized screams
- verb cause to agonize
agonize; agonise.
- adjective satellite expressing pain or agony
- hypnotized3/5
hypnotized
- adjective satellite having your attention fixated as though by a spell
mesmerised; mesmerized; fascinated; spell-bound; spellbound; transfixed; hypnotised.
- verb induce hypnosis in
hypnotize; mesmerize; mesmerise; hypnotise.
- adjective satellite having your attention fixated as though by a spell
- unorganized3/5
unorganized
- adjective not having or belonging to a structured whole
unorganised.
- unorganized territories lack a formal government
- adjective satellite not affiliated in a trade union
unorganised; nonunionized; nonunionised.
- the workers in the plant were unorganized
- adjective not having or belonging to a structured whole
- uncivilized3/5
uncivilized
- adjective satellite without civilizing influences
savage; barbarian; barbaric; uncivilised; wild.
- barbarian invaders
- barbaric practices
- a savage people
- fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade
- wild tribes
- adjective satellite without civilizing influences
- monopolized3/5
monopolize
- verb have and control fully and exclusively
monopolise.
- He monopolizes the laser printer
- verb have or exploit a monopoly of
monopolise.
- OPEC wants to monopolize oil
- verb have and control fully and exclusively
- immunized3/5
immunized
- adjective satellite having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease
vaccinated; immunised.
- verb law: grant immunity from prosecution
immunise; immunize.
- adjective satellite having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease
- canonized3/5
canonized
- adjective satellite accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing
canonised; glorified.
- verb declare (a dead person) to be a saint
canonize; canonise; saint.
- After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized
- adjective satellite accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing
- terrorized3/5
terrorize
- verb coerce by violence or with threats
terrorise.
- verb fill with terror; frighten greatly
terrorise; terrify.
- verb coerce by violence or with threats
- oozed3/5
ooze
- noun any thick, viscous matter
goo; gunk; guck; gook; slime; muck; goop; sludge.
- noun the process of seeping
oozing; seepage.
- noun any thick, viscous matter
- fantasized3/5
fantasize
- verb indulge in fantasies
fantasy; fantasise.
- he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company
- verb portray in the mind
fantasise.
- he is fantasizing the ideal wife
- verb indulge in fantasies
- pulverized3/5
pulverized
- adjective satellite consisting of fine particles
powdery; pulverised; fine-grained; small-grained; powdered.
- powdered cellulose
- powdery snow
- pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding
- verb make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
pulverize; powderize; powderise; pulverise; powder.
- pulverize the grains
- adjective satellite consisting of fine particles
- unrealized3/5
unrealized
- adjective satellite of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities
unrealised; unfulfilled.
- unfulfilled and uneasy men
- unrealized dreams and ambitions
- adjective satellite of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities
- dozed3/5
doze
- noun a light fitful sleep
drowse.
- verb sleep lightly or for a short period of time
snooze; drowse.
- noun a light fitful sleep
- amortized3/5
amortize
- verb liquidate gradually
amortise.
- verb liquidate gradually
- parameterized3/5
parameterized
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- contextualized3/5
contextualized
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- annualized3/5
annualized
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- fluidized3/5
fluidize
To render fluid.
- vocalized2/5
vocalize
- verb utter with vibrating vocal chords
sound; voice; vocalise.
- verb sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel
vocalise.
- verb utter with vibrating vocal chords
- signalized2/5
signalize
- verb provide with traffic signals
signalise.
- signalize a busy intersection
- verb communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
signalise; signal; sign.
- He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture
- The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu
- verb provide with traffic signals
- parallelized2/5
parallelize
- verb place parallel to one another
- verb place parallel to one another
- channelized2/5
channelize
- verb direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
maneuver; head; point; direct; guide; channelise; manoeuvre; manoeuver; steer.
- verb make a channel for; provide with a channel
channelise.
- channelize the country for better transportation
- verb direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- magnetized2/5
magnetized
- adjective having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel
magnetic; magnetised.
- the hard disk is covered with a thin coat of magnetic material
- verb make magnetic
magnetise; magnetize.
- The strong magnet magnetized the iron shavings
- adjective having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel
- militarized2/5
militarized
- adjective satellite issued military arms
militarised.
- verb lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force
militarize; militarise.
- militarize Germany again after the war
- adjective satellite issued military arms
- sanitized2/5
sanitized
- adjective made sanitary
sanitised.
- verb make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing
hygienise; sanitize; sanitise; hygienize.
- adjective made sanitary
- humanized2/5
humanize
- verb make more humane
humanise.
- The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city
- verb make more humane
- equalized2/5
equalize
- verb compensate; make the score equal
equalise; get even.
- verb make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
equate; equal; match; equalise.
- let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office
- The company matched the discount policy of its competitors
- verb compensate; make the score equal
- destabilized2/5
destabilize
- verb become unstable
destabilise.
- The economy destabilized rapidly
- verb make unstable
destabilise.
- Terrorism destabilized the government
- verb become unstable
- compartmentalized2/5
compartmentalized
- adjective satellite divided up into compartments or categories
compartmental; compartmentalised.
- most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized
- verb separate into isolated compartments or categories
compartmentalise; cut up; compartmentalize.
- You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!
- adjective satellite divided up into compartments or categories
- deionized2/5
deionize
- verb remove ions from
- verb remove ions from
- regularized2/5
regularize
- verb bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
regularise; regulate; order; govern.
- We cannot regulate the way people dress
- This town likes to regulate
- verb make regular or more regular
regularise.
- regularize the heart beat with a pace maker
- verb bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- americanized2/5
americanize
- verb make American in character
Americanise.
- The year in the US has completely Americanized him
- verb become American in character
Americanise.
- After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized
- verb make American in character
- radicalized2/5
radicalize
- verb make more radical in social or political outlook
- Her work in the developing world radicalized her
- verb make more radical in social or political outlook
- vascularized2/5
vascularize
- verb become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids
vascularise.
- The egg yolk vascularized
- verb make vascular
vascularise.
- the yolk sac is gradually vascularized
- verb become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids
- capsized2/5
capsize
- verb overturn accidentally
turtle; turn turtle.
- Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!
- verb overturn accidentally
- externalized2/5
externalize
- verb regard as objective
project; externalise.
- verb make external or objective, or give reality to
exteriorise; objectify; externalise; exteriorize.
- language externalizes our thoughts
- verb regard as objective
- demonized2/5
demonize
- verb make into a demon
demonise.
- Power had demonized him
- verb make into a demon
- quizzed2/5
quiz
- noun an examination consisting of a few short questions
- verb examine someone's knowledge of something
test.
- The teacher tests us every week
- We got quizzed on French irregular verbs
- noun an examination consisting of a few short questions
- brutalized2/5
brutalize
- verb treat brutally
brutalise.
- verb make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
animalise; animalize; brutalise.
- Life in the camps had brutalized him
- verb treat brutally
- internationalized2/5
internationalize
- verb put under international control
internationalise.
- internationalize trade of certain drugs
- verb make international in character
internationalise.
- We internationalized the committee
- verb put under international control
- professionalized2/5
professionalize
- verb become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
professionalise.
- verb make professional or give a professional character to
professionalise.
- Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs
- verb become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
- verbalized2/5
verbalized
- adjective satellite communicated in words
uttered; verbalised; expressed.
- frequently uttered sentiments
- verb be verbose
verbalise; verbalize.
- This lawyer verbalizes and is rather tedious
- adjective satellite communicated in words
- conventionalized2/5
conventionalized
- adjective satellite using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous
stylized; conventionalised; stylised.
- a stylized mode of theater production
- verb make conventional or adapt to conventions
conventionalize; conventionalise.
- conventionalized behavior
- adjective satellite using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous
- democratized2/5
democratize
- verb become (more) democratic; of nations
democratise.
- verb introduce democratic reforms; of nations
democratise.
- verb become (more) democratic; of nations
- spiritualized2/5
spiritualize
- verb give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense
spiritualise.
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
transfigure; glorify.
- verb give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense
- eroticized2/5
eroticize
- verb give erotic character to or make more interesting
sex up.
- eroticize the ads
- verb give erotic character to or make more interesting
- breezed2/5
breeze
- noun a slight wind (usually refreshing)
air; zephyr; gentle wind.
- the breeze was cooled by the lake
- as he waited he could feel the air on his neck
- noun any undertaking that is easy to do
picnic; walkover; duck soup; piece of cake; child's play; cinch; snap; pushover.
- marketing this product will be no picnic
- noun a slight wind (usually refreshing)
- masculinized2/5
masculinize
- verb give a masculine appearance or character to
- Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s
- verb produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
masculinise; virilise; virilize.
- the drugs masculinized the teenage girl
- verb give a masculine appearance or character to
- lateralized2/5
lateralize
- verb move or displace to one side so as to make lateral
- verb move or displace to one side so as to make lateral
- solemnized2/5
solemnize
- verb observe or perform with dignity or gravity
solemnise.
- The King solemnized this day of morning
- verb perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies
solemnise.
- verb observe or perform with dignity or gravity
- delocalized2/5
delocalize
- verb remove from the proper or usual locality
- verb remove from the proper or usual locality
- depolarized2/5
depolarize
- verb eliminate the polarization of
depolarise.
- verb eliminate the polarization of
- anthologized2/5
anthologize
- verb compile an anthology
anthologise.
- verb compile an anthology
- depersonalized2/5
depersonalize
- verb make impersonal or present as an object
objectify; depersonalise.
- Will computers depersonalize human interactions?
- Pornography objectifies women
- verb make impersonal or present as an object
- desensitized2/5
desensitize
- verb cause not to be sensitive
desensitise.
- The war desensitized many soldiers
- The photographic plate was desensitized
- verb make insensitive
desensitise.
- His military training desensitized him
- verb cause not to be sensitive
- mythologized2/5
mythologize
- verb construct a myth
mythologise.
- The poet mythologized that the King had three sons
- verb make into a myth
mythologise; mythicise; mythicize.
- The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66
- verb construct a myth
- schematized2/5
schematize
- verb formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula
- The chemists schematized the various reactions in a coherent fashion
- verb give conventional form to
schematise.
- some art forms schematise designs into geometrical patterns
- verb formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula
- alphabetized2/5
alphabetized
- adjective satellite having been put in alphabetical order
alphabetised.
- the cards are all alphabetized, as you requested
- verb arrange in alphabetical order
alphabetise; alphabetize.
- Alphabetize the list
- adjective satellite having been put in alphabetical order
- lexicalized2/5
lexicalized
- adjective expressed by a word
lexicalised.
- verb make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language
lexicalize; lexicalise.
- The concept expressed by German `Gemuetlichkeit' is not lexicalized in English
- adjective expressed by a word
- europeanized2/5
europeanize
- verb make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas
Europeanise.
- verb denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations
Europeanise.
- verb make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas
- vulcanized2/5
vulcanized
- adjective satellite (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
vulcanised; cured.
- verb undergo vulcanization
vulcanize; vulcanise.
- vulcanize rubber
- adjective satellite (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
- anodized2/5
anodize
- verb coat a metal with an oxide coat
anodise.
- verb coat a metal with an oxide coat
- plasticized2/5
plasticize
- verb become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added
plasticise.
- verb make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
plasticise.
- plasticized PVC
- verb become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added
- interiorized2/5
interiorize
- verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
internalize; interiorise; internalise.
- internalize a belief
- verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
- renormalized2/5
renormalize
- verb make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
normalize; normalise; renormalise.
- normalize relations with China
- normalize the temperature
- normalize the spelling
- verb make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
- vitalized2/5
vitalize
- verb give life to
vitalise.
- The eggs are vitalized
- verb make more lively or vigorous
vitalise.
- The treatment at the spa vitalized the old man
- verb give life to
- rubberized2/5
rubberize
- verb coat or impregnate with rubber
rubber; rubberise.
- rubberize fabric for rain coats
- verb coat or impregnate with rubber
- sentimentalized2/5
sentimentalize
- verb look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment
sentimentalise.
- Don't sentimentalize the past events
- verb make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities
sentimentalise.
- Too much poetry sentimentalizes the mind
- These experiences have sentimentalized her
- verb look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment
- glamorized2/5
glamorize
- verb interpret romantically
glamourise; romanticise; romanticize.
- Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!
- verb make glamorous and attractive
glamourise; glamorise; glamourize.
- This new wallpaper really glamorizes the living room!
- verb interpret romantically
- metallized2/5
metallize
- verb coat with metal
metalize.
- verb coat with metal
- catheterized2/5
catheterize
- verb insert a catheter into (a body part)
catheterise.
- catheterize the patient's bladder
- verb insert a catheter into (a body part)
- systematized2/5
systematize
- verb arrange according to a system or reduce to a system
systematise; systemize; systemise.
- systematize our scientific knowledge
- verb arrange according to a system or reduce to a system
- fossilized2/5
fossilized
- adjective satellite set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
fossilised; ossified.
- obsolete fossilized ways
- an ossified bureaucratic system
- verb convert to a fossil
fossilise; fossilize.
- The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone
- adjective satellite set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
- bronzed2/5
bronzed
- adjective satellite (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun
tanned; suntanned.
- a young bronzed Apollo
- verb give the color and appearance of bronze to something
bronze.
- bronze baby shoes
- adjective satellite (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun
- fictionalized2/5
fictionalize
- verb make into fiction
retell; fictionalise.
- The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel
- verb convert into the form or the style of a novel
fictionalise; novelise; novelize.
- The author novelized the historical event
- verb make into fiction
- mineralized2/5
mineralize
- verb convert into a mineral substance
- verb transform (a metal) into an ore
- verb convert into a mineral substance
- idolized2/5
idolized
- adjective satellite regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)
adored; worshipped; idolised.
- adored grandchildren
- an idolized wife
- verb love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
idolise; hero-worship; worship; revere; idolize.
- Many teenagers idolized the Beatles
- adjective satellite regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)
- christianized2/5
christianize
- verb adapt in the name of Christianity
- some people want to Christianize ancient pagan sites
- verb convert to Christianity
Christianise.
- missionaries have tried to Christianize native people all over the world
- verb adapt in the name of Christianity
- sneezed2/5
sneeze
- noun a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose
sternutation; sneezing.
- verb exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose
- Pepper makes me sneeze
- noun a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose
- polymerized2/5
polymerize
- verb cause (a compound) to polymerize
polymerise.
- verb undergo polymerization
polymerise.
- verb cause (a compound) to polymerize
- memorialized2/5
memorialize
- verb address in a memorial
memorialise.
- The President memorialized the heroes of the battle
- verb be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
immortalize; memorialise; commemorate; record; immortalise.
- This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
- We memorialized the Dead
- verb address in a memorial
- atomized2/5
atomize
- verb spray very finely
atomise.
- atomize perfume
- verb strike at with firepower or bombs
nuke; atomise; zap.
- zap the enemy
- verb spray very finely
- antagonized2/5
antagonize
- verb provoke the hostility of
antagonise.
- Don't antagonize your boss
- verb act in opposition to
counteract; antagonise.
- verb provoke the hostility of
- criminalized2/5
criminalize
- verb treat as a criminal
- verb declare illegal; outlaw
illegalise; outlaw; illegalize; criminalise.
- Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S.
- verb treat as a criminal
- familiarized2/5
familiarized
- adjective satellite having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment
adjusted; familiarised.
- verb make familiar or conversant with
familiarise; familiarize; acquaint.
- you should acquaint yourself with your new computer
- We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings
- adjective satellite having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment
- notarized2/5
notarize
- verb authenticate as a notary
notarise.
- We had to have the signature notarized
- verb authenticate as a notary
- dehumanized2/5
dehumanized
- adjective satellite divested of human qualities or attributes
dehumanised; unhuman.
- verb deprive of human qualities
dehumanize; dehumanise.
- Life in poverty has dehumanized them
- adjective satellite divested of human qualities or attributes
- bulldozed2/5
bulldoze
- verb flatten with or as if with a bulldozer
- verb flatten with or as if with a bulldozer
- caramelized2/5
caramelize
- verb be converted into caramel
caramelise.
- The sugar caramelized
- verb convert to caramel
caramelise.
- verb be converted into caramel
- plagiarized2/5
plagiarized
- adjective satellite copied and passed off as your own
plagiaristic; plagiarised.
- used plagiarized data in his thesis
- a work dotted with plagiarized phrases
- verb take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
plagiarize; lift; plagiarise.
- adjective satellite copied and passed off as your own
- carbonized2/5
carbonize
- verb unite with carbon
carburize; carbonise; carburise.
- carburize metal
- verb turn into carbon, as by burning
carbonise.
- carbonize coal
- verb unite with carbon
- cognized2/5
cognize
- verb be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
know; cognise.
- I know that the President lied to the people
- I want to know who is winning the game!
- I know it's time
- verb be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
- romanized2/5
romanize
- verb write in the Latin alphabet
Romanise; Latinise; Latinize.
- many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names
- verb write in the Latin alphabet
- concretized2/5
concretize
- verb make something concrete
- verb become specific
concretise.
- the idea concretized in her mind
- verb make something concrete
- keratinized2/5
keratinize
- verb convert into keratin
keratinise.
- verb become horny and impregnated with keratin
keratinise.
- verb convert into keratin
- dichotomized2/5
dichotomize
- verb divide into two opposing groups or kinds
dichotomise.
- verb divide into two opposing groups or kinds
- moralized2/5
moralize
- verb interpret the moral meaning of
moralise.
- moralize a story
- verb speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
preachify; moralise; sermonise; sermonize.
- This man always sermonizes
- verb interpret the moral meaning of
- latinized2/5
latinize
- verb write in the Latin alphabet
Romanise; Latinise; Romanize.
- many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names
- verb translate into Latin
- verb write in the Latin alphabet
- monetized2/5
monetize
- verb give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country
monetise.
- They monetized the lira
- verb give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country
- devitalized2/5
devitalize
- verb sap of life or energy
devitalise.
- The recession devitalized the economy
- verb sap of life or energy
- evangelized2/5
evangelize
- verb preach the gospel (to)
evangelise.
- verb convert to Christianity
evangelise.
- The missionaries evangelized the Pacific Islanders
- verb preach the gospel (to)
- anaesthetized2/5
anaesthetize
- verb administer an anesthetic drug to
anesthetise; anaesthetise; put under; anesthetize; put out.
- The patient must be anesthetized before the operation
- anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth
- verb administer an anesthetic drug to
- collectivized2/5
collectivized
- adjective satellite characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production
collectivised.
- verb bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises
collectivize; collectivise.
- adjective satellite characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production
- demineralized2/5
demineralize
- verb remove the minerals or salts from
demineralise.
- demineralize water
- verb remove the minerals or salts from
- deputized2/5
deputize
- verb act as a substitute
step in; substitute; deputise.
- She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold
- verb appoint as a substitute
depute; deputise.
- verb act as a substitute
- iodized2/5
iodized
- adjective treated with iodine
iodinated; iodised.
- iodized salt
- verb treat with iodine
iodize; iodise.
- iodize salt
- adjective treated with iodine
- cauterized2/5
cauterize
- verb burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
cauterise; burn.
- The surgeon cauterized the wart
- verb make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
cauterise; callous.
- verb burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent
- creolized2/5
creolize
- verb develop into a creole
- pidgins often creolize
- verb develop into a creole
- jazzed2/5
jazz
- noun empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
nothingness; malarky; idle words; malarkey; wind.
- that's a lot of wind
- don't give me any of that jazz
- noun a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- noun empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- scandalized2/5
scandalize
- verb strike with disgust or revulsion
appal; shock; appall; scandalise; outrage; offend.
- The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends
- verb strike with disgust or revulsion
- particularized2/5
particularized
- adjective satellite directed toward a specific object
particularised.
- particularized thinking as distinct from stereotyped sloganeering
- verb be specific about
particularize; specialise; particularise; specify; specialize.
- Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?
- adjective satellite directed toward a specific object
- vaporized2/5
vaporized
- adjective satellite converted into a gas or vapor
vapourised; volatilised; gasified; volatilized.
- verb kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
vaporize; zap.
- in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens
- adjective satellite converted into a gas or vapor
- miniaturized2/5
miniaturize
- verb design or construct on a smaller scale
miniaturise.
- verb design or construct on a smaller scale
- whizzed2/5
whiz
- noun someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
mavin; champion; ace; genius; wizard; sensation; virtuoso; maven; adept; superstar; hotshot; star; whizz; wiz.
- noun a buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air
- he heard the whiz of bullets near his head
- noun someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- satirized2/5
satirize
- verb ridicule with satire
lampoon; satirise.
- The writer satirized the politician's proposal
- verb ridicule with satire
- downsized2/5
downsize
- verb dismiss from work
- three secretaries were downsized during the financial crisis
- verb make in a smaller size
- the car makers downsized the SUVs when fuel became very expensive
- verb dismiss from work
- pasteurized2/5
pasteurized
- adjective having been subjected to pasteurization in order to halt fermentation
pasteurised.
- verb heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms
pasteurize; pasteurise.
- pasteurize milk
- adjective having been subjected to pasteurization in order to halt fermentation
- anglicized2/5
anglicize
- verb make English in appearance
anglicise.
- She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London
- verb make English in appearance
- demobilized2/5
demobilize
- verb release from military service or remove from the active list of military service
demobilise; inactivate.
- verb retire from military service
demob; demobilise.
- verb release from military service or remove from the active list of military service
- vandalized2/5
vandalize
- verb destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism
vandalise.
- vandalize the park
- verb destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism
- universalized2/5
universalize
- verb make universal
universalise.
- This author's stories universalize old themes
- verb make universal
- collateralized2/5
collateralize
- verb pledge as a collateral
- The loan was collateralized by government bonds
- verb pledge as a collateral
- eulogized2/5
eulogize
- verb praise formally and eloquently
eulogise.
- The dead woman was eulogized at the funeral
- verb praise formally and eloquently
- trivialized2/5
trivialize
- verb make trivial or insignificant
trivialise.
- Don't trivialize the seriousness of the issue!
- verb make trivial or insignificant
- outsized2/5
outsized
- adjective satellite larger than normal for its kind
outsize; oversized; oversize.
- adjective satellite larger than normal for its kind
- aerosolized2/5
aerosolized
- adjective satellite in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas
aerosolised.
- verb disperse as an aerosol
aerosolize; aerosolise.
- The bacteria suspension was aerosolized
- adjective satellite in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas
- editorialized2/5
editorialize
- verb insert personal opinions into an objective statement
editorialise.
- verb insert personal opinions into an objective statement
- waltzed2/5
waltz
- noun an assured victory (especially in an election)
walk-in.
- noun music composed in triple time for waltzing
- noun an assured victory (especially in an election)
- unglazed2/5
unglazed
- adjective not furnished with glass
glassless.
- windows were unglazed to admit as much light and air as possible
- adjective not having a shiny coating
- unglazed paper
- adjective not furnished with glass
- lionized2/5
lionize
- verb assign great social importance to
lionise; celebrate.
- The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood
- The tenor was lionized in Vienna
- verb assign great social importance to
- metastasized2/5
metastasize
- verb spread throughout the body
metastasise.
- the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved
- verb spread throughout the body
- acclimatized2/5
acclimatize
- verb get used to a certain climate
acclimate; acclimatise.
- They never acclimatized in Egypt
- verb get used to a certain climate
- tantalized2/5
tantalize
- verb harass with persistent criticism or carping
rag; razz; bait; twit; taunt; ride; tease; cod; rally; tantalise.
- The children teased the new teacher
- Don't ride me so hard over my failure
- His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie
- verb harass with persistent criticism or carping
- brazed2/5
braze
- verb solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point
- verb solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point
- dialyzed2/5
dialyze
- verb separate by dialysis
dialyse.
- verb separate by dialysis
- analogized2/5
analogize
- verb make an analogy
analogise.
- verb make an analogy
- cannibalized2/5
cannibalize
- verb eat human flesh
cannibalise.
- verb use parts of something to repair something else
cannibalise.
- verb eat human flesh
- hazed2/5
haze
- noun atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
- noun confusion characterized by lack of clarity
fog; daze.
- noun atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
- pluralized2/5
pluralize
- verb mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
pluralise.
- How do speakers pluralize nouns in Japanese?
- verb mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
- overemphasized2/5
overemphasize
- verb place special or excessive emphasis on
overemphasise; overstress.
- I cannot overemphasize the importance of this book
- verb place special or excessive emphasis on
- demilitarized2/5
demilitarize
- verb do away with the military organization and potential of
demilitarise.
- verb remove offensive capability from
demilitarise; disarm.
- verb do away with the military organization and potential of
- resized2/5
resize
- verb change the size of; make the size more appropriate
- verb change the size of; make the size more appropriate
- undersized2/5
undersized
- adjective satellite smaller than normal for its kind
undersize.
- adjective satellite smaller than normal for its kind
- wheezed2/5
wheeze
- noun breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- noun (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
- a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat
- noun breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- relativized2/5
relativize
- verb consider or treat as relative
relativise.
- verb consider or treat as relative
- lyophilized2/5
lyophilized
- adjective satellite used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum
freeze-dried; lyophilised.
- verb to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum
lyophilise; lyophilize.
- adjective satellite used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum
- fetishized2/5
- fazed2/5
fazed
- adjective satellite caused to show discomposure
daunted; bothered.
- refused to be fazed by the objections
- verb disturb the composure of
faze; unsettle; enervate; unnerve.
- adjective satellite caused to show discomposure
- empathized2/5
empathize
- verb be understanding of
understand; empathise; sympathize; sympathise.
- You don't need to explain--I understand!
- verb be understanding of
- burglarized2/5
burglarize
- verb commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
heist; burglarise; burgle.
- verb commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
- tyrannized2/5
tyrannize
- verb rule a country as a tyrant
tyrannise; grind down.
- verb rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner
tyrannise; domineer.
- her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her
- verb rule a country as a tyrant
- unanalyzed2/5
unanalyzed
- adjective not analyzed or broken down for detailed examination
- an unanalyzed compound
- unanalyzed data
- adjective not analyzed or broken down for detailed examination
- unfertilized2/5
unfertilized
- adjective satellite not having been fertilized
unfertilised; unimpregnated.
- an unfertilized egg
- adjective satellite not having been fertilized
- unbaptized2/5
unbaptized
- adjective not having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism
unbaptised.
- adjective not having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism
- unpasteurized2/5
unpasteurized
- adjective not having undergone pasteurization
unpasteurised.
- adjective not having undergone pasteurization
- functionalized2/5
functionalize
To assign to some function or office. R.
- underutilized2/5
underutilized
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- routinized2/5
routinized
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- unfazed2/5
unfazed
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- solubilized2/5
solubilized
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- essentialized2/5
- valorized2/5
valorized
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- recrystallized2/5
recrystallize
(Chem. & Min.) To crystallize again. Henry.
- parasitized2/5
parasitized
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- derivatized2/5
derivatized
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- historicized2/5
historicize
To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle. R.
- unstandardized2/5
unstandardized
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- unsubsidized2/5
- unpolarized2/5
unpolarized
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- securitized2/5
- bureaucratized2/5
bureaucratized
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- hellenized2/5
hellenize
To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.
- unamortized2/5
unamortized
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- reconceptualized2/5
- sensationalized2/5
sensationalized
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- depoliticized2/5
depoliticized
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- medicalized2/5
- regionalized2/5
- nebulized2/5
nebulize
To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.
- aestheticized2/5
- midsized2/5
midsized
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- parametrized2/5
- euthanized2/5
- reanalyzed2/5
reanalyzed
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- surprized2/5
surprise
- noun the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you
- noun a sudden unexpected event
- noun the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you
- ovariectomized2/5
- grammaticalized2/5
- deemphasized2/5
deemphasized
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- intellectualized2/5
intellectualize
To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell.
- heparinized2/5
- undercapitalized2/5
undercapitalized
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- uninitialized2/5
uninitialized
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- reauthorized2/5
reauthorized
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- africanized2/5
africanize
To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Amer. Bartlett.
- reemphasized2/5
reemphasized
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- uncharacterized2/5
- nominalized2/5
- topicalized1/5
topicalize
- verb emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence
- Speakers topicalize more often than they realize
- The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'
- verb emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence
- rasterized1/5
- apostrophized1/5
apostrophize
- verb use an apostrophe
apostrophise.
- verb use an apostrophe
- circularized1/5
circularize
- verb canvass by distributing letters
circularise.
- verb canvass by using a questionnaire
- verb canvass by distributing letters
- diphthongized1/5
diphthongize
- verb change from a simple vowel to a diphthong
diphthongise.
- This vowel diphthongized in Germanic
- verb change from a simple vowel to a diphthong
- automatized1/5
automatize
- verb turn into an automaton
automatise.
- verb make automatic or control or operate automatically
automatise; automate.
- automatize the production
- automate the movement of the robot
- verb turn into an automaton
- digitalized1/5
digitalize
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitise; digitalise; digitize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- allegorized1/5
allegorize
- verb interpret as an allegory
allegorise.
- verb make into an allegory
allegorise.
- The story was allegorized over time
- verb interpret as an allegory
- volatilized1/5
volatilized
- adjective satellite converted into a gas or vapor
vapourised; vaporized; volatilised; gasified.
- verb make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor
volatilize; volatilise.
- adjective satellite converted into a gas or vapor
- territorialized1/5
territorialize
- verb organize as a territory
territorialise.
- verb place on a territorial basis
territorialise.
- The railways were territorialized
- verb organize as a territory
- nasalized1/5
nasalize
- verb speak nasally or through the nose
nasalise.
- In this part of the country, people tend to nasalize
- verb pronounce with a lowered velum
nasalise.
- She nasalizes all her vowels
- verb speak nasally or through the nose
- decriminalized1/5
decriminalize
- verb make legal
legitimatize; legitimatise; legalise; legalize; legitimise; legitimate; decriminalise; legitimize.
- Marijuana should be legalized
- verb make legal
- vulgarized1/5
vulgarize
- verb cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
popularise; vulgarise; generalise; generalize; popularize.
- They popularized coffee in Washington State
- Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
- verb debase and make vulgar
vulgarise.
- The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage
- verb cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
- exteriorized1/5
exteriorize
- verb bring outside the body for surgery, of organs
bring outside.
- verb make external or objective, or give reality to
exteriorise; objectify; externalise; externalize.
- language externalizes our thoughts
- verb bring outside the body for surgery, of organs
- canalized1/5
canalize
- verb provide (a city) with a canal
canal; canalise.
- verb direct the flow of
canalise; channel.
- channel information towards a broad audience
- verb provide (a city) with a canal
- palatalized1/5
palatalized
- adjective satellite produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
palatal; palatalised.
- verb pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate
palatalise; palatalize.
- adjective satellite produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
- islamized1/5
islamize
- verb cause to conform to Islamic law
Islamise.
- Islamize the dietary laws
- verb convert to Islam
Islamise.
- The Mughals Islamized much of Northern India in the 16th century
- verb cause to conform to Islamic law
- colorized1/5
colorize
- verb add color to
color in; colorise; color; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize.
- The child colored the drawings
- Fall colored the trees
- colorize black and white film
- verb add color to
- denationalized1/5
denationalize
- verb put under private control or ownership
denationalise.
- The steel industry was denationalized
- verb put under private control or ownership
- orientalized1/5
orientalize
- verb make oriental in character
orientalise.
- orientalize your garden
- verb make oriental in character
- macadamized1/5
macadamize
- verb surface with macadam
tarmac; macadamise.
- macadam the road
- verb surface with macadam
- demythologized1/5
demythologized
- adjective satellite having mythical elements removed
demythologised.
- verb remove the mythical element from (writings)
demythologise; demythologize.
- the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value
- adjective satellite having mythical elements removed
- transistorized1/5
transistorized
- adjective satellite (of an electronic device) equipped with transistors
transistorised.
- verb equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors
transistorize; transistorise.
- adjective satellite (of an electronic device) equipped with transistors
- opsonized1/5
opsonize
- verb make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes
- verb make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes
- deodorized1/5
deodorize
- verb eliminate the odor from
deodorise; deodourise.
- This stick will deodorize your armpits
- verb eliminate the odor from
- crystalized1/5
crystalized
- adjective satellite (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar
glace; crystalised; candied.
- verb make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
crystallise; illuminate; straighten out; elucidate; clear; clear up; crystallize; sort out; crystalise; shed light on; crystalize; enlighten.
- Could you clarify these remarks?
- Clear up the question of who is at fault
- adjective satellite (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar
- symmetrized1/5
symmetrize
- verb make symmetric
symmetrise.
- symmetrized waves
- verb make symmetric
- gelatinized1/5
gelatinize
- verb coat with gelatin
- verb become gelatinous or change into a jelly
gelatinise.
- the starch gelatinized when it was heated
- verb coat with gelatin
- constitutionalized1/5
constitutionalize
- verb provide with a constitution, as of a country
- The United States were constitutionalized in the late 18th century
- verb take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal
- A good way of exercising is to constitutionalize
- verb provide with a constitution, as of a country
- demagnetized1/5
demagnetize
- verb erase (a magnetic storage device)
demagnetise.
- verb make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of)
degauss; demagnetise.
- demagnetize the iron shavings
- they degaussed the ship
- verb erase (a magnetic storage device)
- denaturalized1/5
denaturalize
- verb make less natural or unnatural
denaturalise.
- verb strip of the rights and duties of citizenship
denaturalise.
- The former Nazi was denaturalized
- verb make less natural or unnatural
- isomerized1/5
isomerize
- verb cause to change into an isomer
isomerise.
- verb change into an isomer
isomerise.
- verb cause to change into an isomer
- etherealized1/5
- suburbanized1/5
suburbanized
- adjective satellite surrounded by many suburbs
suburbanised.
- a highly suburbanized city
- verb take on suburban character
suburbanize; suburbanise.
- the city suburbanized
- adjective satellite surrounded by many suburbs
- tenderized1/5
tenderized
- adjective satellite made tender as by marinating or pounding
tenderised.
- tenderized meat
- verb make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
tender; tenderise; tenderize.
- tenderize meat
- adjective satellite made tender as by marinating or pounding
- arterialized1/5
arterialize
- verb change venous blood into arterial blood
arterialise.
- verb change venous blood into arterial blood
- metalized1/5
metalize
- verb coat with metal
metallize.
- verb coat with metal
- platinized1/5
- mythicized1/5
mythicize
- verb interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology
mythicise.
- mythicize the ancient stories
- verb make into a myth
mythologise; mythologize; mythicise.
- The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66
- verb interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology
- singularized1/5
singularize
- verb distinguish as singular
singularise.
- verb distinguish as singular
- virilized1/5
virilize
- verb produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
masculinise; virilise; masculinize.
- the drugs masculinized the teenage girl
- verb produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
- eternalized1/5
eternalize
- verb make famous forever
immortalize; eternalise; eternize; eternise; immortalise.
- This melody immortalized its composer
- verb make famous forever
- laicized1/5
laicize
- verb reduce to lay status
laicise.
- laicize the parochial schools
- verb reduce to lay status
- dynamized1/5
dynamize
- verb make more dynamic
dynamise.
- She was dynamized by her desire to go to grad school
- verb make (a drug) effective
dynamise.
- dynamized medicine
- verb make more dynamic
- legitimatized1/5
legitimatize
- verb make legal
decriminalize; legitimatise; legalise; legalize; legitimise; legitimate; decriminalise; legitimize.
- Marijuana should be legalized
- verb make legal
- animalized1/5
animalize
- verb represent in the form of an animal
animalise.
- verb make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
animalise; brutalise; brutalize.
- Life in the camps had brutalized him
- verb represent in the form of an animal
- labialized1/5
labialize
- verb pronounce with rounded lips
round; labialise.
- verb pronounce with rounded lips
- effeminized1/5
effeminize
- verb to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to
effeminise; womanize; feminize; feminise.
- This hairdo feminizes the man
- verb to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to
- paganized1/5
paganize
- verb make pagan in character
paganise.
- The Church paganized Christianity
- verb make pagan in character
- classicized1/5
classicize
- verb make classic or classical
classicise.
- verb make classic or classical
- barbarized1/5
barbarize
- verb become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
barbarise.
- verb make crude or savage in behavior or speech
barbarise.
- his years in prison have barbarized the young man
- verb become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
- officialized1/5
officialize
- verb make official
officialise.
- We officialized our relationship
- verb make official
- desulfurized1/5
desulfurize
- verb remove sulfur from
desulphurize.
- verb remove sulfur from
- subtilized1/5
subtilize
- verb mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words
- verb make more subtle or refined
rarefy; sublimate.
- verb mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words
- sensualized1/5
sensualize
- verb represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture
carnalize.
- verb ascribe to an origin in sensation
carnalize.
- verb represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture
- alcoholized1/5
alcoholize
- verb subject to the influence of alcohol
- After we finished dinner, we were thoroughly alcoholized
- verb treat or infuse with alcohol
alcoholise.
- alcoholize the fruit and let them sit in the refrigerator
- verb subject to the influence of alcohol
- anathematized1/5
anathematize
- verb curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
accurse; execrate; anathematise; anathemise; comminate; anathemize.
- verb curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
- apprized1/5
apprize
- verb inform (somebody) of something
send word; apprise; give notice; notify; advise.
- I advised him that the rent was due
- verb make aware of
instruct; apprise.
- Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?
- verb inform (somebody) of something
- focalized1/5
focalize
- verb concentrate on a particular place or spot
localize; localise; focalise.
- The infection has localized in the left eye
- verb bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
focalise; concentre; focus; concenter.
- verb concentrate on a particular place or spot
- bastardized1/5
bastardized
- adjective satellite deriving from more than one source or style
bastardised.
- verb change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms
bastardise; bastardize.
- adjective satellite deriving from more than one source or style
- federalized1/5
federalize
- verb unite on a federal basis or band together as a league
federate; federalise.
- The country was federated after the civil war
- verb put under the control and authority of a federal government
federalise.
- verb unite on a federal basis or band together as a league
- extemporized1/5
extemporize
- verb manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand
improvise.
- after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks
- verb perform without preparation
improvise; ad-lib; improvize; extemporise.
- he extemporized a speech at the wedding
- verb manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand
- factorized1/5
factorize
- verb resolve (a polynomial) into factors
factorise.
- verb resolve (a polynomial) into factors
- unitized1/5
unitize
- verb divide (bulk material) and process as units
unitise.
- verb make into a unit
unitise.
- unitize a car body
- verb divide (bulk material) and process as units
- economized1/5
economize
- verb use cautiously and frugally
conserve; husband; economise.
- I try to economize my spare time
- conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit
- verb spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
save; economise.
- This move will save money
- The less fortunate will have to economize now
- verb use cautiously and frugally
- unsynchronized1/5
unsynchronized
- adjective satellite not occurring together
unsynchronised; unsynchronous; nonsynchronous.
- adjective satellite not occurring together
- proselytized1/5
proselytize
- verb convert to another faith or religion
proselytise.
- verb convert to another faith or religion
- catabolized1/5
catabolize
- verb subject to catabolism
catabolise.
- verb subject to catabolism
- diagonalized1/5
diagonalize
- verb transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix
diagonalise.
- verb transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix
- bowdlerized1/5
bowdlerize
- verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
bowdlerise; expurgate; shorten; castrate.
- bowdlerize a novel
- verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- aluminized1/5
aluminize
- verb cover with aluminum
aluminise.
- verb cover with aluminum
- carburized1/5
carburize
- verb unite with carbon
carbonise; carburise; carbonize.
- carburize metal
- verb unite with carbon
- soliloquized1/5
soliloquize
- verb talk to oneself
soliloquise; monologuize; monologuise.
- verb talk to oneself
- tranquilized1/5
tranquilize
- verb make calm or still
still; tranquillize; calm down; quiet; calm; tranquillise; quieten; lull.
- quiet the dragons of worry and fear
- verb cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
tranquillize; calm; sedate; tranquillise.
- The patient must be sedated before the operation
- verb make calm or still
- propagandized1/5
propagandize
- verb subject to propaganda
propagandise.
- verb spread by propaganda
propagandise.
- verb subject to propaganda
- lazed1/5
laze
- verb be idle; exist in a changeless situation
idle; stagnate; slug.
- The old man sat and stagnated on his porch
- He slugged in bed all morning
- verb be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- anatomized1/5
anatomize
- verb dissect in order to analyze
anatomise.
- anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease
- verb analyze down to the smallest detail
- This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior
- verb dissect in order to analyze
- catechized1/5
catechize
- verb examine through questioning and answering
catechise.
- verb give religious instructions to
catechise.
- verb examine through questioning and answering
- systemized1/5
systemize
- verb arrange according to a system or reduce to a system
systematize; systematise; systemise.
- systematize our scientific knowledge
- verb arrange according to a system or reduce to a system
- syncretized1/5
syncretize
- verb become fused
syncretise.
- verb unite (beliefs or conflicting principles)
syncretise.
- verb become fused
- copolymerized1/5
copolymerize
- verb polymerize together
copolymerise.
- the two substances copolymerized
- verb polymerize together
- tranquillized1/5
tranquillize
- verb make calm or still
still; tranquilize; calm down; quiet; calm; tranquillise; quieten; lull.
- quiet the dragons of worry and fear
- verb cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
tranquilize; calm; sedate; tranquillise.
- The patient must be sedated before the operation
- verb make calm or still
- desacralized1/5
desacralize
- verb transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
secularize.
- verb transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
- depressurized1/5
depressurize
- verb decrease the pressure of
depressurise; decompress.
- depressurize the cabin in the air plane
- verb decrease the pressure of
- decolorized1/5
decolorize
- verb remove color from
bleach out; decolorise; discolourise; discolorise; decolour; decolourise; bleach; decolor; decolourize; discolorize.
- The sun bleached the red shirt
- verb remove color from
- novelized1/5
novelize
- verb convert into the form or the style of a novel
fictionalise; novelise; fictionalize.
- The author novelized the historical event
- verb convert into the form or the style of a novel
- hypophysectomized1/5
hypophysectomized
- adjective having the pituitary gland removed by surgery
hypophysectomised.
- hypophysectomized tadpoles
- verb remove the pituitary glands
hypophysectomise; hypophysectomize.
- adjective having the pituitary gland removed by surgery
- winterized1/5
winterize
- verb prepare for winter
winterise.
- winterize cars
- winterize your houses
- verb prepare for winter
- spritzed1/5
spritz
- noun a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water)
- verb eject (a liquid) quickly
- spritz water on a surface
- noun a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water)
- boozed1/5
booze
- noun an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
hard drink; spirits; liquor; John Barleycorn; hard liquor; strong drink.
- verb consume alcohol
fuddle; drink.
- We were up drinking all night
- noun an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
- advertized1/5
advertize
- verb make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
push; advertise; promote.
- The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model
- The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops
- verb call attention to
publicise; advertise; publicize.
- Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS
- verb make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- solarized1/5
solarize
- verb reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it
solarise.
- verb become overexposed
solarise.
- The film solarized
- verb reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it
- euphemized1/5
euphemize
- verb refer to something with a euphemism
euphemise.
- verb refer to something with a euphemism
- ruggedized1/5
ruggedize
- verb produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage
ruggedise.
- Detroit ruggedized the family car
- verb produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage
- sovietized1/5
sovietize
- verb bring under Soviet control, of a country
sovietise.
- verb model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union
sovietise.
- Castro sovietized Cuba
- verb bring under Soviet control, of a country
- diazotized1/5
diazotize
- verb convert (an amine) into a diazo compound
- verb convert (an amine) into a diazo compound
- deoxidized1/5
deoxidize
- verb to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
reduce; deoxidise.
- verb to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- mongrelized1/5
mongrelize
- verb cause to become a mongrel
mongrelise.
- mongrelized dogs
- verb cause to become a mongrel
- theologized1/5
theologize
- verb treat from a theological viewpoint or render theological in character
theologise.
- verb make theoretical speculations about theology or discuss theological subjects
theologise.
- verb treat from a theological viewpoint or render theological in character
- poetized1/5
poetize
- verb compose verses or put into verse
verse; versify; poetise.
- He versified the ancient saga
- verb compose verses or put into verse
- ozonized1/5
ozonize
- verb convert (oxygen) into ozone
ozonise.
- verb convert (oxygen) into ozone
- dogmatized1/5
dogmatize
- verb state as a dogma
dogmatise.
- verb speak dogmatically
dogmatise.
- verb state as a dogma
- overcapitalized1/5
overcapitalize
- verb estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level
overcapitalise.
- verb overestimate the market value of
overcapitalise.
- overcapitalize a property
- verb estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level
- feudalized1/5
feudalize
- verb bring (a country or people) under feudalism
- verb bring (a country or people) under feudalism
- unmodernized1/5
unmodernized
- adjective satellite not brought up to date
unmodernised.
- adjective satellite not brought up to date
- cicatrized1/5
cicatrize
- verb form a scar, after an injury
cicatrise.
- the skin will cicatrize and it will heal soon
- verb form a scar, after an injury
- remilitarized1/5
remilitarize
- verb militarize anew
remilitarise.
- Should Japan be remilitarized?
- verb militarize anew
- homologized1/5
homologize
- verb be homologous
- A person's arms homologize with a quadruped's forelimbs
- verb make homologous
homologise.
- verb be homologous
- unvulcanized1/5
unvulcanized
- adjective satellite (used of rubber) not subjected to the process of vulcanization
unvulcanised.
- adjective satellite (used of rubber) not subjected to the process of vulcanization
- dematerialized1/5
dematerialize
- verb become immaterial; disappear
dematerialise.
- verb become immaterial; disappear
- containerized1/5
containerize
- verb package in a container
containerise.
- The cargo was containerized for safe and efficient shipping
- verb package in a container
- anthropomorphized1/5
anthropomorphize
- verb ascribe human features to something
anthropomorphise.
- verb ascribe human features to something
- blitzed1/5
blitz
- noun (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line
linebacker blitzing; safety blitz.
- noun a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment
blitzkrieg.
- noun (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line
- decolonized1/5
decolonize
- verb grant independence to (a former colony)
decolonise.
- West Africa was decolonized in the early 1960's
- verb grant independence to (a former colony)
- totalized1/5
totalize
- verb make into a total
totalise.
- Can we totalize these different ideas into one philosophy?
- verb make into a total
- temporized1/5
temporize
- verb draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time
temporise.
- The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote
- verb draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time
- philosophized1/5
philosophize
- verb reason philosophically
philosophise.
- verb reason philosophically
- literalized1/5
literalize
- verb make literal
literalise.
- literalize metaphors
- verb make literal
- fraternized1/5
fraternize
- verb be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy
fraternise.
- verb be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy
- rhapsodized1/5
rhapsodize
- verb recite a rhapsody
rhapsodise.
- verb say (something) with great enthusiasm
rhapsodise.
- verb recite a rhapsody
- balkanized1/5
balkanize
- verb divide a territory into small, hostile states
Balkanise.
- verb divide a territory into small, hostile states
- overgeneralized1/5
overgeneralize
- verb draw too general a conclusion
overgeneralise.
- It is dangerous to overgeneralize
- verb draw too general a conclusion
- fizzed1/5
fizz
- noun an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)
- verb become bubbly or frothy or foaming
froth; foam; effervesce; sparkle; form bubbles.
- The boiling soup was frothing
- The river was foaming
- Sparkling water
- noun an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)
- desexualized1/5
desexualize
- verb direct one's libidinous urges into another direction
desexualise.
- verb make infertile
sterilise; desex; desexualise; sterilize; unsex; fix.
- in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
- verb direct one's libidinous urges into another direction
- exorcized1/5
exorcize
- verb expel through adjuration or prayers
exorcise.
- exorcise evil spirits
- verb expel through adjuration or prayers
- aggrandized1/5
aggrandize
- verb add details to
dramatize; dramatise; embellish; blow up; pad; embroider; lard; aggrandise.
- verb add details to
- apostatized1/5
apostatize
- verb abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
tergiversate; apostatise.
- verb abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
- frizzed1/5
frizz
- noun the condition of being formed into small tight curls
- her hair was in a frizz
- verb curl tightly
crape; kink; frizzle; crimp; kink up.
- crimp hair
- noun the condition of being formed into small tight curls
- elasticized1/5
elasticized
- adjective satellite made with strands or inserts of elastic
elasticised.
- slacks with an elasticized waistband
- adjective satellite made with strands or inserts of elastic
- apotheosized1/5
apotheosize
- verb deify or glorify
apotheosise; apotheose.
- verb deify or glorify
- marbleized1/5
marbleized
- adjective satellite patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble
marbled; marbleised.
- marbleized pink skin
- verb make something look like marble
marbleize; marbleise.
- marbleize the fireplace
- adjective satellite patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble
- moisturized1/5
moisturize
- verb make (more) humid
moisturise; humidify.
- We have a machine that humidifies the air in the house
- verb make (more) humid
- psychoanalyzed1/5
psychoanalyze
- verb subject to psychoanalytic treatment
psychoanalyse; analyze; analyse.
- I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist
- verb subject to psychoanalytic treatment
- detribalized1/5
detribalize
- verb cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity
detribalise.
- verb cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity
- monumentalized1/5
monumentalize
- verb record or memorialize lastingly with a monument
monumentalise.
- verb record or memorialize lastingly with a monument
- sermonized1/5
sermonize
- verb speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
preachify; moralize; moralise; sermonise.
- This man always sermonizes
- verb speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
- razzed1/5
razz
- noun a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
boo; razzing; Bronx cheer; hoot; hiss; raspberry; bird; snort.
- verb harass with persistent criticism or carping
rag; bait; tantalize; twit; taunt; ride; tease; cod; rally; tantalise.
- The children teased the new teacher
- Don't ride me so hard over my failure
- His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie
- noun a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- melanized1/5
melanize
- verb convert into, or infiltrate with melanin
melanise.
- verb make or become black
black; blacken; melanise; nigrify.
- The smoke blackened the ceiling
- The ceiling blackened
- verb convert into, or infiltrate with melanin
- mercerized1/5
mercerized
- adjective of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye
mercerised.
- mercerized cotton
- verb treat to strengthen and improve the luster
mercerize; mercerise.
- mercerize cotton
- adjective of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye
- ebonized1/5
ebonize
- verb stain black to make it look like ebony
ebonise.
- verb stain black to make it look like ebony
- polemicized1/5
polemicize
- verb engage in a controversy
polemise; polemicise; polemize.
- The two historians polemicized for years
- verb engage in a controversy
- etherized1/5
etherize
- verb anesthetize with ether
etherise.
- verb anesthetize with ether
- tweezed1/5
tweeze
- verb pluck with tweezers
- tweeze facial hair
- verb pluck with tweezers
- communalized1/5
communalize
- verb make something the property of the commune or community
communalise.
- verb make something the property of the commune or community
- sectionalized1/5
sectionalize
- verb divide into sections, especially into geographic sections
sectionalise.
- sectionalize a country
- verb divide into sections, especially into geographic sections
- capsulized1/5
capsulize
- verb enclose in a capsule
capsulate; capsule; capsulise.
- verb put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
capsulise; capsule; encapsulate.
- capsulize the news
- verb enclose in a capsule
- overspecialized1/5
overspecialize
- verb become overly specialized
overspecialise.
- She overspecialized when she concentrated on verbs in Fijian
- verb become overly specialized
- hyperbolized1/5
hyperbolize
- verb to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
overdraw; magnify; exaggerate; overstate; hyperbolise; amplify.
- tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
- verb to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- overdramatized1/5
overdramatize
- verb present in an overly dramatic manner
overdramatise.
- She is overdramatizing her child's failure in the physics class
- verb present in an overly dramatic manner
- nitrogenized1/5
nitrogenize
- verb treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound
nitrogenise; nitrify.
- verb treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound
- sodomized1/5
sodomize
- verb copulate with an animal
sodomise.
- verb practice anal sex upon
bugger; sodomise.
- verb copulate with an animal
- ghettoized1/5
ghettoize
- verb put in a ghetto
ghettoise.
- The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized
- verb put in a ghetto
- unspecialized1/5
unspecialized
- adjective not specialized or modified for a particular purpose or function
unspecialised.
- adjective not specialized or modified for a particular purpose or function
- hypostatized1/5
hypostatize
- verb construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
hypostatise.
- verb construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
- snoozed1/5
snooze
- noun sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
cat sleep; catnap; nap; short sleep; forty winks.
- verb sleep lightly or for a short period of time
doze; drowse.
- noun sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
- pauperized1/5
pauperize
- verb reduce to beggary
pauperise; beggar.
- verb reduce to beggary
- fuzzed1/5
fuzzed
- adjective satellite covering with fine light hairs
fuzzy.
- his head fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed
- adjective satellite covering with fine light hairs
- mazed1/5
mazed
- adjective satellite perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
baffled; bewildered; bemused; lost; confounded; confused; befuddled; at sea; mixed-up.
- obviously bemused by his questions
- bewildered and confused
- a cloudy and confounded philosopher
- just a mixed-up kid
- she felt lost on the first day of school
- adjective satellite perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
- photosensitized1/5
photosensitize
- verb make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light
photosensitise.
- verb make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light
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demonetize
- verb deprive of value for payment
demonetise.
- demonetize a coin
- verb deprive of value for payment
- narcotized1/5
narcotized
- adjective satellite under the influence of narcotics
drugged; doped; narcotised.
- knocked out by doped wine
- a drugged sleep
- were under the effect of the drugged sweets
- in a stuperous narcotized state
- verb administer narcotics to
narcotise; narcotize.
- adjective satellite under the influence of narcotics
- aromatized1/5
aromatize
- verb fill or impregnate with an odor
aromatise; perfume.
- orange blossoms perfumed the air in the garden
- verb fill or impregnate with an odor
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schmooze
- noun an informal conversation
confab; schmoose; confabulation; chat.
- verb talk idly or casually and in a friendly way
shmoose; shmooze; schmoose; jawbone.
- noun an informal conversation
- unnaturalized1/5
unnaturalized
- adjective satellite not having acquired citizenship
unnaturalised.
- adjective satellite not having acquired citizenship
- unsterilized1/5
unsterilized
- adjective satellite not sterilized
unsterilised.
- adjective satellite not sterilized
- vasectomized1/5
vasectomize
- verb remove the vas deferens
vasectomise.
- many men choose to be vasectomized as a form of safe birth control
- verb remove the vas deferens
- unverbalized1/5
unverbalized
- adjective satellite not made explicit
unexpressed; unstated; unverbalised; unvoiced; unuttered; unspoken; unsaid.
- the unexpressed terms of the agreement
- things left unsaid
- some kind of unspoken agreement
- his action is clear but his reason remains unstated
- adjective satellite not made explicit
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sulfurized
- adjective treated or impregnated with sulfur
sulfuretted; sulphuretted.
- sulfuretted hydrogen
- adjective treated or impregnated with sulfur
- noninstitutionalized1/5
noninstitutionalized
- adjective not committed to an institution
noninstitutionalised.
- adjective not committed to an institution
- nonunionized1/5
nonunionized
- adjective satellite not affiliated in a trade union
unorganized; unorganised; nonunionised.
- the workers in the plant were unorganized
- adjective satellite not affiliated in a trade union
- nonionized1/5
nonionized
- adjective not converted into ions
nonionic; unionized; nonionised; unionised.
- adjective not converted into ions
- uncategorized1/5
uncategorized
- adjective satellite not categorized or sorted
uncategorised; unsorted.
- adjective satellite not categorized or sorted
- unsized1/5
unsized
- adjective not having the surface treated or coated with sizing
- unsized paper
- adjective not fashioned to sizes; one size fits all"
- unsized gloves
- adjective not having the surface treated or coated with sizing
- derecognized1/5
derecognize
- verb cause to be no longer approved or accepted
decertify; derecognise.
- Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China
- verb cause to be no longer approved or accepted
- uncrystallized1/5
uncrystallized
- adjective not finally or definitely formed
uncrystallised.
- uncrystallized ideas
- adjective satellite without real or apparent crystalline form
amorphous; uncrystallised.
- an amorphous mineral
- amorphous structure
- adjective not finally or definitely formed
- unmechanized1/5
unmechanized
- adjective satellite not mechanized
unmechanised.
- production of furniture remained largely unmechanized"- Gordon Russell
- adjective satellite not mechanized
- micronized1/5
- nonstandardized1/5
nonstandardized
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- overgrazed1/5
overgrazed
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- sacralized1/5
sacralized
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unutilized
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- modularized1/5
- divinized1/5
divinize
To invest with a divine character; to deify. R. M. Arnold.Man had divinized all those objects of awe. Milman.
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- skeletonized1/5
skeletonize
To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
- parenthesized1/5
parenthesize
To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks. Lowell.
- mediatized1/5
mediatize
To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank. The misfortune of being a mediatized prince. Beaconsfield.
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accessorized
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- hierarchized1/5
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departmentalized
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- delegitimized1/5
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- rebaptized1/5
rebaptize
To baptize again or a second time.
- underemphasized1/5
underemphasized
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- germanized1/5
germanize
To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to .Germanize a province, a language, a society
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psychologized
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- nonmotorized1/5
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supersized
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nonindustrialized
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- arabized1/5
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emblematize
To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize. Anciently the sun was commonly emblematized by a starry or radiate figure. Bp. Hurd.
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- pedestrianized1/5
pedestrianize
To practice walking; to travel on foot.
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- ironized1/5
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- recapitalized1/5
recapitalized
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- recolonized1/5
recolonize
To colonize again.
- unsocialized1/5
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ideologized
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- journalized1/5
journalize
To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.
- pelletized1/5
pelletized
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- lobotomized1/5
lobotomized
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- nonspecialized1/5
nonspecialized
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- electrolyzed1/5
electrolyze
To decompose by the direct action of electricity. Faraday.
- incentivized1/5
- hispanicized1/5
hispanicize
To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to .Hispanicize Latin words
- cyclized1/5
cyclized
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- siliconized1/5
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reinitialized
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- mischaracterized1/5
mischaracterize
To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
- unstabilized1/5
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- epithelialized1/5
epithelialized
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- dimerized1/5
- judaized1/5
judaize
To conform to the doctrines, observances, or methods of the Jews; to inculcate or impose Judaism. They . . . prevailed on the Galatians to Judaize so far as to observe the rites of Moses in various instances. They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law. Bp. Bull.
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sinicized
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- unmagnetized1/5
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- fractionalized1/5
fractionalized
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- unimmunized1/5
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- pyrolyzed1/5
- deinstitutionalized1/5
deinstitutionalized
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- orthogonalized1/5
- ventriloquized1/5
ventriloquize
To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.
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- preauthorized1/5
- unmetabolized1/5
- potentized1/5
potentize
To render the latent power of (anything) available. Dunglison.
- oversocialized1/5
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splenectomized
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- robotized1/5
robotized
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- hypostasized1/5
hypostasize
To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. R.The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.
- emotionalized1/5
emotionalize
To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
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passivized
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- serpentinized1/5
serpentinize
(Min.) To convert (a magnesian silicate) into serpentine. --Ser`pen*tin`i*za"tion n.
- italianized1/5
italianize
To play the Italian; to speak Italian. Cotgrave.
- unparasitized1/5
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- salinized1/5
salinized
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- missionized1/5
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- methodized1/5
methodize
To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; Spectator.as, to .methodize one's work or thoughts
- depolymerized1/5
- uncriticized1/5
- recategorized1/5
- reutilized1/5
reutilized
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- grammaticized1/5
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- japanized1/5
japanized
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- synonymized1/5
synonymize
To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to. This word "fortis" we may synonymize after all these fashions: stout, hardy, valiant, doughty, courageous, adventurous, brave, bold, daring, intrepid. Camden.
- repolarized1/5
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- rehospitalized1/5
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- upsized1/5
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- casualized1/5
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- polonized1/5
- synthetized1/5
synthetize
To combine; to unite in regular structure. R.
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- colonialized1/5
- gallicized1/5
- semicivilized1/5
semicivilized
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- gonadectomized1/5
gonadectomized
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- uncapitalized1/5
uncapitalized
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- traditionalized1/5
traditionalized
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- vernalized1/5
vernalized
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- comprized1/5
comprise
- verb be composed of
consist.
- The land he conquered comprised several provinces
- What does this dish consist of?
- verb include or contain; have as a component
incorporate; contain.
- A totally new idea is comprised in this paper
- The record contains many old songs from the 1930's
- verb be composed of
- platonized1/5
platonize
To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers. Milner.
- sectorized1/5
- russianized1/5
russianize
To make Russian, or more or less like the Russians; as, to .Russianize the Poles
- heroized1/5
heroized
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- teazed1/5
tease
- noun someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
vexer; teaser; annoyer.
- noun a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
minx; prickteaser; vamper; coquette; flirt; vamp.
- noun someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- judicialized1/5
judicialized
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- iconized1/5
iconize
To form an image or likeness of. R. Cudworth.
- minimalized1/5
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- musicalized1/5
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- impersonalized1/5
impersonalized
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- rematerialized1/5
- preorganized1/5
- unquantized1/5
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- unsensitized1/5
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hysterectomized
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- lichenized1/5
lichenized
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- dualized1/5
dualized
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unacclimatized
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- imperialized1/5
imperialize
To invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire. Fuller.
- nonsubsidized1/5
- gothicized1/5
gothicize
To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
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geometrize
To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry. Nature geometrizeth, and observeth order in all things. Sir T. Browne.
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- substantialized1/5
substantialize
To make substantial.
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Suffixes of zed
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zedong
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- zedekiah2/5
zedekiah
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- zedoary1/5
zedoary
(Med.) A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indian, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in medicine as a stimulant. ✍ It is the rhizome of different species of Curcuma , esp.C. zedoaria , and comes in short, firm pieces, externally of a wrinkled gray, ash-colored appearance, but within of a brownish red color. There are two kinds, round zedoary, and long zedoary.
Derived words of zed
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dazedly
- adverb in a daze; in a dazed manner
torpidly.
- he wondered dazedly whether the term after next at his new school wouldn't matter so much
- adverb in a daze; in a dazed manner
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melchizedek
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- azedarach1/5
azedarach
- noun tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
azederach; China tree; Melia azederach; chinaberry tree; chinaberry; Melia azedarach; pride-of-India; Persian lilac.
- noun tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
- benzedrine1/5
benzedrine
- noun a form of amphetamine
bennie.
- noun a form of amphetamine
- amazedly1/5
amazed
- adjective satellite filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
astonished; astounded; stunned; astonied.
- an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation
- I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral
- astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing
- stood in stunned silence
- stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses
- verb affect with wonder
amaze; astonish; astound.
- Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!
- adjective satellite filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
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socialized
socialised.
socialize; socialise.