izing: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of izing
- organizing«Word Popularity Bar5/5
organize
- verb create (as an entity)
organise; form.
- social groups form everywhere
- They formed a company
- verb cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
organise.
- verb create (as an entity)
- recognizing5/5
recognize
- verb accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
know; recognise; acknowledge.
- The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne
- We do not recognize your gods
- verb be fully aware or cognizant of
recognise; agnize; realise; agnise; realize.
- verb accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
- realizing5/5
realize
- verb be fully aware or cognizant of
recognise; agnize; recognize; realise; agnise.
- verb perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
see; understand; realise.
- Now I see!
- I just can't see your point
- Does she realize how important this decision is?
- I don't understand the idea
- verb be fully aware or cognizant of
- emphasizing4/5
emphasizing
- noun the act of giving special importance or significance to something
accentuation; accenting.
- verb to stress, single out as important
emphasise; accent; punctuate; stress; accentuate; emphasize.
- Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet
- noun the act of giving special importance or significance to something
- utilizing4/5
utilize
- verb put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
employ; apply; use; 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
- verb convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust)
- verb put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- minimizing4/5
minimize
- verb make small or insignificant
minimise.
- Let's minimize the risk
- verb represent as less significant or important
downplay; understate; minimise.
- verb make small or insignificant
- maximizing4/5
maximizing
- adjective satellite making as great as possible
maximising.
- verb make as big or large as possible
maximise; maximize.
- Maximize your profits!
- adjective satellite making as great as possible
- seizing4/5
seizing
- noun small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together
- noun the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
grasping; prehension; taking hold.
- noun small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together
- characterizing4/5
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
- theorizing4/5
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
- stabilizing4/5
stabilizing
- adjective satellite causing to become stable
stabilising.
- the family is one of the great stabilizing elements in society
- verb make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium
stabilise; stabilize.
- The drug stabilized her blood pressure
- stabilize prices
- adjective satellite causing to become stable
- summarizing4/5
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)
- criticizing4/5
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
- authorizing4/5
authorize
- verb grant authorization or clearance for
clear; authorise; pass.
- Clear the manuscript for publication
- The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography
- verb give or delegate power or authority to
empower; authorise.
- She authorized her assistant to sign the papers
- verb grant authorization or clearance for
- sizing4/5
sizing
- noun any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
size.
- size gives body to a fabric
- verb cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)
size.
- noun any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
- optimizing4/5
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
- mobilizing3/5
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
- specializing3/5
specialize
- verb become more focus on an area of activity or field of study
specialise; narrow down; narrow.
- She specializes in Near Eastern history
- verb be specific about
particularize; specialise; particularise; specify.
- Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?
- verb become more focus on an area of activity or field of study
- downsizing3/5
downsizing
- noun the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
retrenchment; curtailment.
- verb dismiss from work
downsize.
- three secretaries were downsized during the financial crisis
- noun the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
- socializing3/5
- agonizing3/5
agonizing
- adjective satellite extremely painful
agonising; excruciating; torturous; torturing; harrowing; torturesome.
- verb cause to agonize
agonize; agonise.
- adjective satellite extremely painful
- visualizing3/5
visualize
- verb imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
picture; 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
- verb view the outline of by means of an X-ray
visualise.
- The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver
- verb imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- customizing3/5
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
- civilizing3/5
civilize
- verb teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
educate; civilise; school; train; cultivate.
- Cultivate your musical taste
- Train your tastebuds
- She is well schooled in poetry
- verb raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
civilise.
- The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized
- verb teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- modernizing3/5
modernize
- verb make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
overhaul; modernise.
- You should overhaul your car engine
- overhaul the health care system
- verb become technologically advanced
develop; modernise.
- Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace
- Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly
- verb make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
- conceptualizing3/5
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
- synthesizing3/5
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
- destabilizing3/5
destabilize
- verb become unstable
destabilise.
- The economy destabilized rapidly
- verb make unstable
destabilise.
- Terrorism destabilized the government
- verb become unstable
- ionizing3/5
ionize
- verb become converted into ions
ionise.
- verb convert into ions
ionise.
- verb become converted into ions
- symbolizing3/5
symbolizing
- noun the act of representing something with a symbol
symbolising.
- verb express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
symbolise; typify; symbolize; represent; stand for.
- What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
- noun the act of representing something with a symbol
- tantalizing3/5
tantalizing
- adjective satellite arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach
tantalising.
- a tantalizing taste of success
- verb harass with persistent criticism or carping
rag; razz; 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
- adjective satellite arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach
- oxidizing3/5
oxidize
- verb enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide
oxidise; oxidate.
- This metal oxidizes easily
- verb add oxygen to or combine with oxygen
oxidise; oxidate.
- verb enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide
- colonizing3/5
colonize
- verb settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
colonise.
- Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century
- verb settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
colonise.
- The British colonized the East Coast
- verb settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
- patronizing3/5
patronizing
- adjective satellite (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
patronising; arch; condescending.
- verb assume sponsorship of
patronise; sponsor; patronize.
- adjective satellite (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
- generalizing3/5
generalize
- verb draw from specific cases for more general cases
extrapolate; infer; generalise.
- verb speak or write in generalities
generalise.
- verb draw from specific cases for more general cases
- neutralizing3/5
neutralize
- verb make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
- The treaty neutralized the small republic
- verb make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
nullify; negate; neutralise.
- Her optimism neutralizes his gloom
- This action will negate the effect of my efforts
- verb make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
- apologizing3/5
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
- categorizing3/5
categorize
- verb place into or assign to a category
categorise.
- Children learn early on to categorize
- verb place into or assign to a category
- globalizing3/5
globalize
- verb make world-wide in scope or application
globalise.
- Markets are being increasingly globalized
- verb make world-wide in scope or application
- normalizing3/5
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
- memorizing3/5
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
- digitizing3/5
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
- internalizing3/5
internalize
- verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
interiorize; interiorise; internalise.
- internalize a belief
- verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
- prioritizing3/5
prioritize
- verb assign a priority to
prioritise.
- we have too many things to do and must prioritize
- verb assign a priority to
- scrutinizing3/5
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
- capitalizing3/5
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
- necrotizing3/5
necrotizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- rationalizing3/5
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
- reorganizing3/5
reorganize
- verb organize anew
shake up; reorganise.
- We must reorganize the company if we don't want to go under
- verb organize anew, as after a setback
reorganise; regroup.
- verb organize anew
- energizing3/5
energizing
- noun the activity of causing to have energy and be active
activation; activating.
- verb cause to be alert and energetic
energize; arouse; energise; perk up; brace; stimulate.
- Coffee and tea stimulate me
- This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate
- noun the activity of causing to have energy and be active
- legitimizing3/5
legitimize
- verb make legal
legitimatize; decriminalize; legitimatise; legalise; legalize; legitimise; legitimate; decriminalise.
- Marijuana should be legalized
- verb make legal
- externalizing3/5
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
- harmonizing3/5
harmonize
- verb go together
accord; fit in; concord; consort; harmonise; agree.
- The colors don't harmonize
- Their ideas concorded
- verb write a harmony for
harmonise.
- verb go together
- polarizing3/5
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
- totalizing3/5
totalize
- verb make into a total
totalise.
- Can we totalize these different ideas into one philosophy?
- verb make into a total
- moralizing3/5
moralizing
- noun indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code
moralisation; moralization.
- his constant moralizing drove me mad
- verb interpret the moral meaning of
moralize; moralise.
- moralize a story
- noun indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code
- synchronizing3/5
synchronizing
- noun the relation that exists when things occur at the same time
synchronisation; synchronicity; synchronism; synchronization; synchroneity; synchrony.
- the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves
- noun an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison
synchronising; synchronization; synchronisation.
- noun the relation that exists when things occur at the same time
- resizing3/5
resize
- verb change the size of; make the size more appropriate
- verb change the size of; make the size more appropriate
- industrializing3/5
industrialize
- verb organize (the production of something) into an industry
industrialise.
- The Chinese industrialized textile production
- verb develop industry; become industrial
industrialise.
- The nations of South East Asia will quickly industrialize and catch up with the West
- verb organize (the production of something) into an industry
- standardizing3/5
standardize
- verb cause to conform to standard or norm
standardise.
- The weights and measures were standardized
- verb evaluate by comparing with a standard
standardise.
- verb cause to conform to standard or norm
- centralizing3/5
centralizing
- adjective tending to draw to a central point
centralising.
- verb make central
centralize; concentrate; centralise.
- The Russian government centralized the distribution of food
- adjective tending to draw to a central point
- jeopardizing3/5
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
- localizing3/5
localize
- verb identify the location or place of
localise; place.
- We localized the source of the infection
- verb concentrate on a particular place or spot
localise; focalize; focalise.
- The infection has localized in the left eye
- verb identify the location or place of
- subsidizing3/5
subsidize
- verb support through subsidies
subsidise.
- The arts in Europe are heavily subsidized
- verb secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces
subsidise.
- verb support through subsidies
- demoralizing3/5
demoralizing
- adjective satellite destructive of morale and self-reliance
demoralising; disheartening; dispiriting.
- 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 destructive of morale and self-reliance
- publicizing2/5
publicizing
- noun the business of drawing public attention to goods and services
advertising.
- verb make public
publicize; bare; publicise; air.
- She aired her opinions on welfare
- noun the business of drawing public attention to goods and services
- liberalizing2/5
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
- democratizing2/5
democratize
- verb become (more) democratic; of nations
democratise.
- verb introduce democratic reforms; of nations
democratise.
- verb become (more) democratic; of nations
- fertilizing2/5
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
- equalizing2/5
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
- dehumanizing2/5
dehumanize
- verb deprive of human qualities
dehumanise.
- Life in poverty has dehumanized them
- verb make mechanical or routine
dehumanise.
- verb deprive of human qualities
- luteinizing2/5
luteinizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- proselytizing2/5
proselytize
- verb convert to another faith or religion
proselytise.
- verb convert to another faith or religion
- revitalizing2/5
revitalizing
- adjective satellite tending to impart new life and vigor to
revitalising; renewing; reviving; restorative.
- the renewing warmth of the sunshine
- verb restore strength
regenerate; revitalize.
- This food revitalized the patient
- adjective satellite tending to impart new life and vigor to
- initializing2/5
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
- privatizing2/5
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
- philosophizing2/5
philosophizing
- noun the exposition (often superficially) of a particular philosophy
- verb reason philosophically
philosophise; philosophize.
- noun the exposition (often superficially) of a particular philosophy
- mesmerizing2/5
mesmerizing
- adjective satellite attracting and holding interest as if by a spell
spellbinding; mesmeric; hypnotic.
- read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice
- she had a warm mesmeric charm
- the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing
- a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome
- verb attract strongly, as if with a magnet
bewitch; mesmerize; mesmerise; magnetize; magnetise; spellbind.
- She magnetized the audience with her tricks
- adjective satellite attracting and holding interest as if by a spell
- institutionalizing2/5
institutionalize
- verb cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
commit; charge; send; institutionalise.
- After the second episode, she had to be committed
- he was committed to prison
- verb cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- baptizing2/5
baptize
- verb administer baptism to
christen; baptise.
- The parents had the child baptized
- verb administer baptism to
- fantasizing2/5
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
- homogenizing2/5
homogenize
- verb cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing
homogenise.
- homogenize the main ingredients
- verb break up the fat globules of
homogenise.
- homogenized milk
- verb cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing
- universalizing2/5
universalize
- verb make universal
universalise.
- This author's stories universalize old themes
- verb make universal
- sympathizing2/5
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
- dramatizing2/5
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
- formalizing2/5
formalize
- verb make formal or official
formalise.
- We formalized the appointment and gave him a title
- verb declare or make legally valid
validate; formalise.
- verb make formal or official
- terrorizing2/5
terrorize
- verb coerce by violence or with threats
terrorise.
- verb fill with terror; frighten greatly
terrorise; terrify.
- verb coerce by violence or with threats
- sensitizing2/5
sensitizing
- noun rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
sensitisation; sensitization; sensitising.
- verb make sensitive or aware
sensify; sensitise; sensibilise; sensibilize; sensitize.
- He was not sensitized to her emotional needs
- noun rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
- stigmatizing2/5
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
- idealizing2/5
idealize
- verb consider or render as ideal
idealise.
- She idealized her husband after his death
- verb form ideals
idealise.
- Man has always idealized
- verb consider or render as ideal
- appetizing2/5
appetizing
- adjective appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma
appetising.
- adjective appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma
- humanizing2/5
humanize
- verb make more humane
humanise.
- The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city
- verb make more humane
- finalizing2/5
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
- actualizing2/5
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
- contextualizing2/5
contextualizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- legalizing2/5
legalize
- verb make legal
legitimatize; decriminalize; legitimatise; legalise; legitimise; legitimate; decriminalise; legitimize.
- Marijuana should be legalized
- verb make legal
- personalizing2/5
personalize
- verb make personal or more personal
individualize; personalise; individualise.
- personalized service
- verb make personal or more personal
- metabolizing2/5
metabolize
- verb produce by metabolism
metabolise.
- verb produce by metabolism
- revolutionizing2/5
revolutionize
- verb change radically
overturn; revolutionise.
- E-mail revolutionized communication in academe
- verb overthrow by a revolution, of governments
- verb change radically
- popularizing2/5
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
- strategizing2/5
- sterilizing2/5
sterilize
- verb make free from bacteria
sterilise.
- verb make infertile
sterilise; desex; desexualise; unsex; desexualize; fix.
- in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized
- verb make free from bacteria
- individualizing2/5
individualize
- verb make or mark or treat as individual
individualise.
- The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone
- verb make personal or more personal
personalize; personalise; individualise.
- personalized service
- verb make or mark or treat as individual
- crystallizing2/5
crystallizing
- noun the formation of crystals
crystallization; crystallisation.
- verb cause to take on a definite and clear shape
crystallise; crystalise; crystalize; crystallize.
- He tried to crystallize his thoughts
- noun the formation of crystals
- evangelizing2/5
evangelize
- verb preach the gospel (to)
evangelise.
- verb convert to Christianity
evangelise.
- The missionaries evangelized the Pacific Islanders
- verb preach the gospel (to)
- marginalizing2/5
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
- decentralizing2/5
decentralizing
- adjective tending away from a central point
decentralising.
- verb make less central
decentralise; decentralize; deconcentrate.
- After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized
- adjective tending away from a central point
- monopolizing2/5
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
- naturalizing2/5
naturalize
- verb make into a citizen
naturalise.
- The French family was naturalized last year
- verb explain with reference to nature
- verb make into a citizen
- depolarizing2/5
depolarize
- verb eliminate the polarization of
depolarise.
- verb eliminate the polarization of
- galvanizing2/5
galvanizing
- adjective satellite affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling
galvanising; electric; galvanic.
- gave an electric reading of the play
- the new leader had a galvanic effect on morale
- verb to stimulate to action
galvanise; startle; galvanize.
- ..startled him awake
- galvanized into action
- adjective satellite affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling
- nationalizing2/5
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
- antagonizing2/5
antagonize
- verb provoke the hostility of
antagonise.
- Don't antagonize your boss
- verb act in opposition to
counteract; antagonise.
- verb provoke the hostility of
- materializing2/5
materialize
- verb come into being; become reality
happen; materialise.
- Her dream really materialized
- verb come into being; become reality
- penalizing2/5
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
- historicizing2/5
historicize
To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle. R.
- reconceptualizing2/5
reconceptualizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- immobilizing2/5
immobilizing
- noun the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
immobilisation; immobilization.
- the storm caused complete immobilization of the rescue team
- verb hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital
immobilize; immobilise.
- noun the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
- magnetizing2/5
magnetize
- verb make magnetic
magnetise.
- The strong magnet magnetized the iron shavings
- verb attract strongly, as if with a magnet
bewitch; mesmerize; mesmerise; magnetise; spellbind.
- She magnetized the audience with her tricks
- verb make magnetic
- economizing2/5
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
- familiarizing2/5
familiarizing
- adjective satellite serving to make familiar
familiarising.
- 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 serving to make familiar
- criminalizing2/5
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
- essentializing2/5
- hypothesizing2/5
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
- decolonizing2/5
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)
- politicizing2/5
politicize
- verb give a political character to
politicise.
- politicize the discussion
- verb give a political character to
- moisturizing2/5
moisturize
- verb make (more) humid
moisturise; humidify.
- We have a machine that humidifies the air in the house
- verb make (more) humid
- demonizing2/5
demonize
- verb make into a demon
demonise.
- Power had demonized him
- verb make into a demon
- empathizing2/5
empathize
- verb be understanding of
understand; empathise; sympathize; sympathise.
- You don't need to explain--I understand!
- verb be understanding of
- systematizing2/5
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
- verbalizing2/5
verbalize
- verb be verbose
verbalise.
- This lawyer verbalizes and is rather tedious
- verb express in speech
verbalise; mouth; utter; talk; speak.
- She talks a lot of nonsense
- This depressed patient does not verbalize
- verb be verbose
- memorializing2/5
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
- aggrandizing2/5
aggrandize
- verb add details to
dramatize; dramatise; embellish; blow up; pad; embroider; lard; aggrandise.
- verb add details to
- womanizing2/5
womanize
- verb have amorous affairs; of men
philander; womanise.
- He has been womanizing for years
- verb to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to
effeminise; effeminize; feminize; feminise.
- This hairdo feminizes the man
- verb have amorous affairs; of men
- romanticizing2/5
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
- christianizing2/5
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
- commercializing2/5
commercialize
- verb exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality
- The hotel owners are commercializing the beaches
- verb make commercial
market; commercialise.
- Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life
- verb exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality
- sanitizing2/5
sanitize
- verb make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing
hygienise; sanitise; hygienize.
- verb make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features
sanitise.
- sanitize a document before releasing it to the press
- sanitize history
- sanitize the language in a book
- verb make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing
- immunizing2/5
immunize
- verb law: grant immunity from prosecution
immunise.
- verb perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
inoculate; immunise; vaccinate.
- We vaccinate against scarlet fever
- The nurse vaccinated the children in the school
- verb law: grant immunity from prosecution
- satirizing2/5
satirize
- verb ridicule with satire
lampoon; satirise.
- The writer satirized the politician's proposal
- verb ridicule with satire
- internationalizing2/5
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
- traumatizing2/5
traumatize
- verb inflict a trauma upon
shock; traumatise.
- verb inflict a trauma upon
- vocalizing2/5
vocalizing
- noun the act of singing vocal music
singing.
- verb utter with vibrating vocal chords
sound; vocalize; voice; vocalise.
- noun the act of singing vocal music
- feminizing2/5
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
- trivializing2/5
trivialize
- verb make trivial or insignificant
trivialise.
- Don't trivialize the seriousness of the issue!
- verb make trivial or insignificant
- hybridizing2/5
hybridizing
- noun (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; interbreeding; hybridization.
- verb breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
hybridize; interbreed; crossbreed; cross; hybridise.
- cross a horse and a donkey
- Mendel tried crossbreeding
- these species do not interbreed
- noun (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- temporizing2/5
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
- secularizing2/5
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
- quantizing2/5
quantize
- verb approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values
quantise.
- verb apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor
quantise.
- Quantize gravity
- verb approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values
- judaizing2/5
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.
- amortizing2/5
amortize
- verb liquidate gradually
amortise.
- verb liquidate gradually
- capsizing2/5
capsizing
- noun (nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water
- verb overturn accidentally
turtle; capsize; turn turtle.
- Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!
- noun (nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water
- urbanizing2/5
urbanize
- verb make more industrial or city-like
urbanise.
- The area was urbanized after many people moved in
- verb impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon
urbanise.
- Birds are being urbanized by people in outdoor cafes feeding them
- verb make more industrial or city-like
- brutalizing2/5
brutalize
- verb treat brutally
brutalise.
- verb make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
animalise; animalize; brutalise.
- Life in the camps had brutalized him
- verb treat brutally
- unappetizing2/5
unappetizing
- adjective not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste
unappetising.
- adjective not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste
- vaporizing2/5
vaporize
- verb kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
zap.
- in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens
- verb turn into gas
aerify; gasify; vaporise.
- The substance gasified
- verb kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
- mythologizing2/5
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
- vitalizing2/5
vitalizing
- adjective satellite giving or having the power to give life and spirit
life-giving.
- returning the life-giving humus to the land"- Louis Bromfield
- life-giving love and praise
- the vitalizing rays of the warming sun
- verb give life to
vitalise; vitalize.
- The eggs are vitalized
- adjective satellite giving or having the power to give life and spirit
- randomizing2/5
randomize
- verb arrange in random order
randomise.
- Randomize the order of the numbers
- verb arrange in random order
- serializing2/5
serialize
- verb arrange serially
serialise.
- Serialize the numbers
- verb arrange serially
- victimizing2/5
victimize
- verb make a victim of
victimise.
- I was victimized by this con-man
- verb punish unjustly
victimise.
- verb make a victim of
- valorizing2/5
valorizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- cognizing2/5
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
- fraternizing2/5
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
- classicizing2/5
classicize
- verb make classic or classical
classicise.
- verb make classic or classical
- overemphasizing2/5
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
- relativizing2/5
relativize
- verb consider or treat as relative
relativise.
- verb consider or treat as relative
- pulverizing2/5
pulverize
- verb make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
powderize; powderise; pulverise; powder.
- pulverize the grains
- verb destroy completely
demolish; pulverise.
- the wrecking ball demolished the building
- demolish your enemies
- pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand
- verb make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
- hypnotizing2/5
hypnotize
- verb induce hypnosis in
mesmerize; mesmerise; hypnotise.
- verb induce hypnosis in
- sermonizing2/5
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
- radicalizing2/5
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
- tranquilizing2/5
tranquilizing
- adjective satellite tending to soothe or tranquilize
ataractic; sedative; tranquillizing; tranquillising; ataraxic; tranquilising.
- valium has a tranquilizing effect
- took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed
- verb make calm or still
still; tranquilize; tranquillize; calm down; quiet; calm; tranquillise; quieten; lull.
- quiet the dragons of worry and fear
- adjective satellite tending to soothe or tranquilize
- solubilizing2/5
solubilizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- orientalizing2/5
orientalize
- verb make oriental in character
orientalise.
- orientalize your garden
- verb make oriental in character
- epitomizing2/5
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
- carburizing2/5
carburize
- verb unite with carbon
carbonise; carburise; carbonize.
- carburize metal
- verb unite with carbon
- plagiarizing2/5
plagiarize
- verb take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
lift; plagiarise.
- verb take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- theologizing2/5
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
- professionalizing2/5
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
- westernizing2/5
westernize
- verb make western in character
occidentalise; occidentalize; westernise.
- The country was Westernized after it opened up
- verb make western in character
- regularizing2/5
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
- eulogizing2/5
eulogize
- verb praise formally and eloquently
eulogise.
- The dead woman was eulogized at the funeral
- verb praise formally and eloquently
- itemizing2/5
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
- desensitizing2/5
desensitizing
- adjective making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
desensitising.
- verb cause not to be sensitive
desensitise; desensitize.
- The war desensitized many soldiers
- The photographic plate was desensitized
- adjective making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli
- editorializing1/5
editorialize
- verb insert personal opinions into an objective statement
editorialise.
- verb insert personal opinions into an objective statement
- anodizing1/5
anodize
- verb coat a metal with an oxide coat
anodise.
- verb coat a metal with an oxide coat
- demythologizing1/5
demythologize
- verb remove the mythical element from (writings)
demythologise.
- the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value
- verb remove the mythical element from (writings)
- prizing1/5
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
- americanizing1/5
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
- spiritualizing1/5
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
- pressurizing1/5
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
- journalizing1/5
journalize
To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.
- hyperpolarizing1/5
- linearizing1/5
linearize
- verb make linear or get into a linear form
linearise.
- a catalyst linearizes polyethylene
- verb make linear or get into a linear form
- disorganizing1/5
disorganize
- verb remove the organization from
disorganise.
- verb remove the organization from
- atomizing1/5
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
- particularizing1/5
particularize
- verb be specific about
specialise; particularise; specify; specialize.
- Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?
- verb be specific about
- compartmentalizing1/5
compartmentalize
- verb separate into isolated compartments or categories
compartmentalise; cut up.
- You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!
- verb separate into isolated compartments or categories
- allegorizing1/5
allegorize
- verb interpret as an allegory
allegorise.
- verb make into an allegory
allegorise.
- The story was allegorized over time
- verb interpret as an allegory
- polymerizing1/5
polymerize
- verb cause (a compound) to polymerize
polymerise.
- verb undergo polymerization
polymerise.
- verb cause (a compound) to polymerize
- demagnetizing1/5
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)
- psychologizing1/5
psychologizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- metastasizing1/5
metastasize
- verb spread throughout the body
metastasise.
- the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved
- verb spread throughout the body
- parallelizing1/5
parallelize
- verb place parallel to one another
- verb place parallel to one another
- vandalizing1/5
vandalize
- verb destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism
vandalise.
- vandalize the park
- verb destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism
- fetishizing1/5
- analogizing1/5
analogize
- verb make an analogy
analogise.
- verb make an analogy
- cannibalizing1/5
cannibalize
- verb eat human flesh
cannibalise.
- verb use parts of something to repair something else
cannibalise.
- verb eat human flesh
- dichotomizing1/5
dichotomize
- verb divide into two opposing groups or kinds
dichotomise.
- verb divide into two opposing groups or kinds
- anesthetizing1/5
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
- upsizing1/5
- aestheticizing1/5
- immortalizing1/5
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
- masculinizing1/5
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
- propagandizing1/5
propagandize
- verb subject to propaganda
propagandise.
- verb spread by propaganda
propagandise.
- verb subject to propaganda
- merchandizing1/5
merchandizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- idolizing1/5
idolize
- verb love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
idolise; hero-worship; worship; revere.
- Many teenagers idolized the Beatles
- verb love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
- surprizing1/5
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
- intellectualizing1/5
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.
- depersonalizing1/5
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
- fictionalizing1/5
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
- deemphasizing1/5
deemphasizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- rightsizing1/5
rightsizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- unionizing1/5
unionize
- verb recruit for a union or organize into a union
unionise.
- We don't allow people to come into our plant and try to unionize the workers
- verb form or join a union
organize; organise; unionise.
- The auto workers decided to unionize
- verb recruit for a union or organize into a union
- depoliticizing1/5
depoliticizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- catechizing1/5
catechize
- verb examine through questioning and answering
catechise.
- verb give religious instructions to
catechise.
- verb examine through questioning and answering
- recontextualizing1/5
recontextualizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- parameterizing1/5
- ritualizing1/5
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
- computerizing1/5
computerize
- verb provide with computers
computerise.
- Our office is fully computerized now
- verb store in a computer
computerise.
- computerized dictionary
- verb provide with computers
- concretizing1/5
concretize
- verb make something concrete
- verb become specific
concretise.
- the idea concretized in her mind
- verb make something concrete
- canonizing1/5
canonize
- verb declare (a dead person) to be a saint
canonise; saint.
- After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized
- verb treat as a sacred person
canonise.
- He canonizes women
- verb declare (a dead person) to be a saint
- ostracizing1/5
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
- technologizing1/5
- demobilizing1/5
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
- sexualizing1/5
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
- nonionizing1/5
- missionizing1/5
- keratinizing1/5
keratinize
- verb convert into keratin
keratinise.
- verb become horny and impregnated with keratin
keratinise.
- verb convert into keratin
- italicizing1/5
italicize
- verb print in italics
italicise.
- verb print in italics
- mineralizing1/5
mineralize
- verb convert into a mineral substance
- verb transform (a metal) into an ore
- verb convert into a mineral substance
- cauterizing1/5
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
- delegitimizing1/5
- scandalizing1/5
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
- alphabetizing1/5
alphabetize
- verb arrange in alphabetical order
alphabetise.
- Alphabetize the list
- verb provide with an alphabet
- Cyril and Method alphabetized the Slavic languages
- verb arrange in alphabetical order
- anthropomorphizing1/5
anthropomorphize
- verb ascribe human features to something
anthropomorphise.
- verb ascribe human features to something
- overgeneralizing1/5
overgeneralize
- verb draw too general a conclusion
overgeneralise.
- It is dangerous to overgeneralize
- verb draw too general a conclusion
- photosensitizing1/5
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
- archaizing1/5
archaize
- verb give an archaic appearance of character to
archaise.
- archaized craftwork
- verb give an archaic appearance of character to
- pluralizing1/5
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
- plasticizing1/5
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
- militarizing1/5
militarize
- verb lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force
militarise.
- militarize Germany again after the war
- verb adopt for military use
militarise.
- militarize the Civil Service
- verb lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force
- solemnizing1/5
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
- vulcanizing1/5
vulcanize
- verb undergo vulcanization
vulcanise.
- vulcanize rubber
- verb subject to vulcanization
vulcanise.
- vulcanized rubber
- verb undergo vulcanization
- photosynthesizing1/5
photosynthesizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- mechanizing1/5
mechanize
- verb equip with armed and armored motor vehicles
motorize; motorise; mechanise.
- mechanize armies
- verb make monotonous; make automatic or routine
mechanise.
- If your work becomes too mechanized, change jobs!
- verb equip with armed and armored motor vehicles
- virilizing1/5
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
- sentimentalizing1/5
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
- provincializing1/5
provincialize
To render provincial. M. Arnold.
- infantilizing1/5
- systemizing1/5
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
- botanizing1/5
botanize
- verb collect and study plants
botanise.
- verb collect and study plants
- temporalizing1/5
- monetizing1/5
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
- securitizing1/5
- tyrannizing1/5
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
- deodorizing1/5
deodorize
- verb eliminate the odor from
deodorise; deodourise.
- This stick will deodorize your armpits
- verb eliminate the odor from
- absolutizing1/5
- eroticizing1/5
eroticize
- verb give erotic character to or make more interesting
sex up.
- eroticize the ads
- verb give erotic character to or make more interesting
- sensationalizing1/5
sensationalizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- hellenizing1/5
hellenize
To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.
- platonizing1/5
platonize
To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers. Milner.
- advertizing1/5
advertizing
- noun a public promotion of some product or service
ad; advert; advertising; advertisement; advertizement.
- verb make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
push; advertise; promote; advertize.
- The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model
- The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops
- noun a public promotion of some product or service
- parasitizing1/5
parasitizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- sacralizing1/5
sacralizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- decriminalizing1/5
decriminalize
- verb make legal
legitimatize; legitimatise; legalise; legalize; legitimise; legitimate; decriminalise; legitimize.
- Marijuana should be legalized
- verb make legal
- lateralizing1/5
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
- federalizing1/5
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
- tranquillizing1/5
tranquillizing
- adjective satellite tending to soothe or tranquilize
tranquilizing; ataractic; sedative; tranquillising; ataraxic; tranquilising.
- valium has a tranquilizing effect
- took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed
- verb make calm or still
still; tranquilize; tranquillize; calm down; quiet; calm; tranquillise; quieten; lull.
- quiet the dragons of worry and fear
- adjective satellite tending to soothe or tranquilize
- colorizing1/5
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
- constitutionalizing1/5
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
- burglarizing1/5
burglarize
- verb commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
heist; burglarise; burgle.
- verb commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
- glamorizing1/5
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
- sodomizing1/5
sodomize
- verb copulate with an animal
sodomise.
- verb practice anal sex upon
bugger; sodomise.
- verb copulate with an animal
- literalizing1/5
literalize
- verb make literal
literalise.
- literalize metaphors
- verb make literal
- alkalinizing1/5
alkalinize
- verb become alkaline
alkalinise.
- verb make (a substance) alkaline
alkalinise.
- The oxide is alkalized
- verb become alkaline
- fluidizing1/5
fluidize
To render fluid.
- austenitizing1/5
- reemphasizing1/5
reemphasizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- exorcizing1/5
exorcize
- verb expel through adjuration or prayers
exorcise.
- exorcise evil spirits
- verb expel through adjuration or prayers
- anglicizing1/5
anglicize
- verb make English in appearance
anglicise.
- She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London
- verb make English in appearance
- medicalizing1/5
- stylizing1/5
stylize
- verb represent according to a conventional style
conventionalize; stylise.
- a stylized female head
- verb represent according to a conventional style
- denaturalizing1/5
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
- soliloquizing1/5
soliloquize
- verb talk to oneself
soliloquise; monologuize; monologuise.
- verb talk to oneself
- indigenizing1/5
- ironizing1/5
- accessorizing1/5
accessorizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- derivatizing1/5
- pasteurizing1/5
pasteurize
- verb heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms
pasteurise.
- pasteurize milk
- verb heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms
- romanizing1/5
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
- nominalizing1/5
- diagonalizing1/5
diagonalize
- verb transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix
diagonalise.
- verb transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix
- acclimatizing1/5
acclimatize
- verb get used to a certain climate
acclimate; acclimatise.
- They never acclimatized in Egypt
- verb get used to a certain climate
- oversizing1/5
oversize
- adjective satellite larger than normal for its kind
outsize; outsized; oversized.
- adjective satellite larger than normal for its kind
- alkalizing1/5
alkalize
- verb turn basic and less acidic
basify; alkalise; alkalify.
- the solution alkalized
- verb turn basic and less acidic
- poetizing1/5
poetize
- verb compose verses or put into verse
verse; versify; poetise.
- He versified the ancient saga
- verb compose verses or put into verse
- apostrophizing1/5
apostrophize
- verb use an apostrophe
apostrophise.
- verb use an apostrophe
- deputizing1/5
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
- rasterizing1/5
- miniaturizing1/5
miniaturize
- verb design or construct on a smaller scale
miniaturise.
- verb design or construct on a smaller scale
- rhapsodizing1/5
rhapsodize
- verb recite a rhapsody
rhapsodise.
- verb say (something) with great enthusiasm
rhapsodise.
- verb recite a rhapsody
- collectivizing1/5
collectivize
- verb bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises
collectivise.
- verb bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises
- territorializing1/5
territorialize
- verb organize as a territory
territorialise.
- verb place on a territorial basis
territorialise.
- The railways were territorialized
- verb organize as a territory
- tenderizing1/5
tenderize
- verb make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
tender; tenderise.
- tenderize meat
- verb make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
- focalizing1/5
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
- europeanizing1/5
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
- lionizing1/5
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
- anatomizing1/5
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
- dogmatizing1/5
dogmatize
- verb state as a dogma
dogmatise.
- verb speak dogmatically
dogmatise.
- verb state as a dogma
- schematizing1/5
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
- repolarizing1/5
- reauthorizing1/5
reauthorizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- depolymerizing1/5
- pelletizing1/5
pelletizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- interiorizing1/5
interiorize
- verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
internalize; interiorise; internalise.
- internalize a belief
- verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
- routinizing1/5
routinizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- dematerializing1/5
dematerialize
- verb become immaterial; disappear
dematerialise.
- verb become immaterial; disappear
- regionalizing1/5
- subitizing1/5
- reenergizing1/5
- anathematizing1/5
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
- ventriloquizing1/5
ventriloquize
To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.
- anthologizing1/5
anthologize
- verb compile an anthology
anthologise.
- verb compile an anthology
- extemporizing1/5
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
- decolorizing1/5
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
- acidizing1/5
- factorizing1/5
factorize
- verb resolve (a polynomial) into factors
factorise.
- verb resolve (a polynomial) into factors
- anonymizing1/5
- carbonizing1/5
carbonize
- verb unite with carbon
carburize; carbonise; carburise.
- carburize metal
- verb turn into carbon, as by burning
carbonise.
- carbonize coal
- verb unite with carbon
- hospitalizing1/5
hospitalize
- verb admit into a hospital
hospitalise.
- Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high
- verb admit into a hospital
- islamizing1/5
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
- modularizing1/5
- denationalizing1/5
denationalize
- verb put under private control or ownership
denationalise.
- The steel industry was denationalized
- verb put under private control or ownership
- mathematizing1/5
- unitizing1/5
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
- recapitalizing1/5
recapitalizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- winterizing1/5
winterize
- verb prepare for winter
winterise.
- winterize cars
- winterize your houses
- verb prepare for winter
- metallizing1/5
- immiserizing1/5
- hierarchizing1/5
- divinizing1/5
divinize
To invest with a divine character; to deify. R. M. Arnold.Man had divinized all those objects of awe. Milman.
- canalizing1/5
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
- imperializing1/5
imperialize
To invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire. Fuller.
- demilitarizing1/5
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
- objectivizing1/5
- signalizing1/5
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
- attitudinizing1/5
attitudinize
- verb assume certain affected attitudes
attitudinise.
- verb assume certain affected attitudes
- euthanizing1/5
- germanizing1/5
germanize
To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to .Germanize a province, a language, a society
- recolonizing1/5
recolonize
To colonize again.
- functionalizing1/5
functionalize
To assign to some function or office. R.
- poeticizing1/5
- concertizing1/5
concertize
- verb give concerts; perform in concerts
concertise.
- My niece is off concertizing in Europe
- verb give concerts; perform in concerts
- vulgarizing1/5
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
- incentivizing1/5
- fistulizing1/5
- ghettoizing1/5
ghettoize
- verb put in a ghetto
ghettoise.
- The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized
- verb put in a ghetto
- hypostatizing1/5
hypostatize
- verb construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
hypostatise.
- verb construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
- monumentalizing1/5
monumentalize
- verb record or memorialize lastingly with a monument
monumentalise.
- verb record or memorialize lastingly with a monument
- radiosensitizing1/5
- bureaucratizing1/5
bureaucratizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- annualizing1/5
- creolizing1/5
creolize
- verb develop into a creole
- pidgins often creolize
- verb develop into a creole
- supersizing1/5
supersizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- digitalizing1/5
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
- palletizing1/5
- anaesthetizing1/5
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
- texturizing1/5
- synergizing1/5
- arborizing1/5
arborize
- verb branch out like trees
arborise.
- nerve fibers arborize
- verb branch out like trees
- africanizing1/5
africanize
To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Amer. Bartlett.
- subjectivizing1/5
- catheterizing1/5
catheterize
- verb insert a catheter into (a body part)
catheterise.
- catheterize the patient's bladder
- verb insert a catheter into (a body part)
- unsympathizing1/5
unsympathizing
- adjective satellite not showing or expressing sympathy
unsympathising.
- an uncharitable and unsympathizing attitude
- adjective satellite not showing or expressing sympathy
- etymologizing1/5
etymologizing
- noun (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
deriving; derivation.
- verb give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word)
etymologise; etymologize.
- The linguist probably etymologized the words incorrectly
- Although he is not trained in this, his hobby is etymologizing
- noun (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- devitalizing1/5
devitalize
- verb sap of life or energy
devitalise.
- The recession devitalized the economy
- verb sap of life or energy
- gormandizing1/5
gormandize
- verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
engorge; gormandise; overgorge; glut; overeat; satiate; englut; stuff; ingurgitate; overindulge; gorge; scarf out; gourmandize; binge; pig out.
- She stuffed herself at the dinner
- The kids binged on ice cream
- verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- recrystallizing1/5
recrystallize
(Chem. & Min.) To crystallize again. Henry.
- desacralizing1/5
desacralize
- verb transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
secularize.
- verb transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
- polemicizing1/5
polemicize
- verb engage in a controversy
polemise; polemicise; polemize.
- The two historians polemicized for years
- verb engage in a controversy
- opsonizing1/5
opsonize
- verb make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes
- verb make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes
- exteriorizing1/5
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
- pauperizing1/5
pauperize
- verb reduce to beggary
pauperise; beggar.
- verb reduce to beggary
- caramelizing1/5
caramelize
- verb be converted into caramel
caramelise.
- The sugar caramelized
- verb convert to caramel
caramelise.
- verb be converted into caramel
- narcotizing1/5
narcotizing
- adjective satellite inducing stupor or narcosis
narcotising; narcotic.
- narcotic drugs
- verb administer narcotics to
narcotise; narcotize.
- adjective satellite inducing stupor or narcosis
- nebulizing1/5
nebulize
To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.
- parametrizing1/5
- nonoxidizing1/5
- vectorizing1/5
- suburbanizing1/5
suburbanize
- verb take on suburban character
suburbanise.
- the city suburbanized
- verb make suburban in character
suburbanise.
- highly suburbanized cities
- verb take on suburban character
- latinizing1/5
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
- effeminizing1/5
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
- depressurizing1/5
depressurize
- verb decrease the pressure of
depressurise; decompress.
- depressurize the cabin in the air plane
- verb decrease the pressure of
- balkanizing1/5
balkanize
- verb divide a territory into small, hostile states
Balkanise.
- verb divide a territory into small, hostile states
- skeletonizing1/5
skeletonize
To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
- sectionalizing1/5
sectionalize
- verb divide into sections, especially into geographic sections
sectionalise.
- sectionalize a country
- verb divide into sections, especially into geographic sections
- volatilizing1/5
volatilize
- verb make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor
volatilise.
- verb make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor
- ideologizing1/5
ideologizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- singularizing1/5
singularize
- verb distinguish as singular
singularise.
- verb distinguish as singular
- renormalizing1/5
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
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rebaptize
To baptize again or a second time.
- channelizing1/5
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
- fossilizing1/5
fossilize
- verb convert to a fossil
fossilise.
- The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone
- verb become mentally inflexible
fossilise.
- verb convert to a fossil
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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
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catholicize
- verb cause to adopt Catholicism
catholicise; latinise; latinize.
- verb cause to adopt Catholicism
- deindustrializing1/5
deindustrializing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
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conventionalize
- verb make conventional or adapt to conventions
conventionalise.
- conventionalized behavior
- verb represent according to a conventional style
stylize; stylise.
- a stylized female head
- verb make conventional or adapt to conventions
- dualizing1/5
dualizing
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- notarizing1/5
notarize
- verb authenticate as a notary
notarise.
- We had to have the signature notarized
- verb authenticate as a notary
- dynamizing1/5
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
- bastardizing1/5
bastardize
- verb change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms
bastardise.
- verb declare a child to be illegitimate
bastardise.
- verb change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms
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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
- resocializing1/5
- apostatizing1/5
apostatize
- verb abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
tergiversate; apostatise.
- verb abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
- eternalizing1/5
eternalize
- verb make famous forever
immortalize; eternalise; eternize; eternise; immortalise.
- This melody immortalized its composer
- verb make famous forever
Derived words of izing
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tantalizingly
- adverb in a tantalizing manner
invitingly.
- she smiled at him tantalizingly
- adverb in a tantalizing manner
- agonizingly2/5
agonizingly
- adverb in a very painful manner
excruciatingly; torturously.
- the progress was agonizingly slow
- adverb in a very painful manner
- patronizingly2/5
patronizingly
- adverb with condescension; in a patronizing manner
condescendingly; patronisingly.
- he treats his secretary condescendingly
- adverb with condescension; in a patronizing manner
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sizing
- noun any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
size.
- size gives body to a fabric
- verb cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)
size.
- noun any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
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socializing
socialising; socialisation; socialization.
socialize; socialise.