| accession | (verb) make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library | - |
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| apotheosise | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheose, apotheosize |
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| apotheosize | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheose, apotheosise |
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| assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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| (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
| assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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| (verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
| assign | (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose | Synonyms: set apart, specify |
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| (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, attribute, impute |
| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: attribute |
| (verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: put |
| (verb) transfer one's right to | - |
| (verb) give out | Synonyms: allot, portion |
| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: arrogate |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: delegate, depute, designate |
| assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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| (verb) make similar | - |
| (verb) become similar in sound | - |
| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
| assist | (verb) act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function | - |
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| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: attend, attend to, serve, wait on |
| (verb) give help or assistance; be of service | Synonyms: aid, help |
| babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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| (verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
| basify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize |
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| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| broadside | (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
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| capsize | (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: turn turtle, turtle |
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| classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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| classicize | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicise |
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| classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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| (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
| (verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |
| commission | (verb) charge with a task | - |
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| (verb) put into commission; equip for service; of ships | - |
| (verb) place an order for | - |
| compassionate | (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with |
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| consider | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: reckon, regard, see, view |
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| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: deal, look at, take |
| (verb) regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem | - |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, think |
| (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: count, weigh |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: debate, deliberate, moot, turn over |
| (verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: study |
| (verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: regard |
| (verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: look at, view |
| consign | (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: charge |
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| (verb) commit forever; commit irrevocably | - |
| (verb) send to an address | - |
| consist | (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: dwell, lie, lie in |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: comprise |
| (verb) be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous | - |
| (verb) have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in | - |
| cosign | (verb) sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan | Synonyms: co-sign |
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| (verb) sign jointly | Synonyms: co-sign |
| countersign | (verb) add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity | - |
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| countersink | (verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: set |
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| deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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| declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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| decommission | (verb) withdraw from active service | - |
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| demulsify | (verb) break down into components | - |
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| (verb) cause to demulsify | - |
| deposit | (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
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| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
| derequisition | (verb) release from government control | - |
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| desensitise | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
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| (verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
| desensitize | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
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| (verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
| desiccate | (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: dehydrate, dry up, exsiccate |
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| (verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
| (verb) remove water from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
| design | (verb) plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect | - |
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| (verb) intend or have as a purpose | - |
| (verb) create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner | - |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, plan, project |
| (verb) create designs | - |
| (verb) conceive or fashion in the mind; invent | - |
| designate | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
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| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| desire | (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: want |
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| (verb) express a desire for | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: hope, trust |
| desist | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, refrain |
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| detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| dimension | (verb) shape or form to required dimensions | - |
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| (verb) indicate the dimensions on | - |
| disillusion | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
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| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| disincline | (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: indispose |
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| disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
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| disinfest | (verb) rid of vermin | - |
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| disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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| disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
| (verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
| disinter | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: exhume |
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| disinvest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: divest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: divest |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: divest |
| disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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| dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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| (verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
| (verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
| dissimulate | (verb) hide (feelings) from other people | - |
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| dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
| (verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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| (verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
| (verb) dismiss from work | - |
| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| emulsify | (verb) form into or become an emulsion | - |
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| (verb) cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion | - |
| ensile | (verb) store in a silo | - |
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| envision | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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| (verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: foresee |
| exposit | (verb) state | Synonyms: expound, set forth |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| exsiccate | (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: dehydrate, desiccate, dry up |
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| facsimile | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
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| falsify | (verb) falsify knowingly | - |
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| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, interpolate |
| (verb) prove false | - |
| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, garble, warp |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| fantasise | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasize, fantasy |
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| (verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasize |
| fantasize | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasy |
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| (verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasise |
| fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
| fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
| fusillade | (verb) attack with fusillade | - |
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| gasify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: aerify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| gossip | (verb) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies | Synonyms: dish the dirt |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| hesitate | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: waffle, waver |
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| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: pause |
| hypothesise | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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| hypothesize | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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| insinuate | (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: adumbrate, intimate |
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| (verb) introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner | - |
| insist | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: assert |
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| (verb) be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge | Synonyms: take a firm stand |
| (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: importune |
| intensify | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: deepen |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten |
| (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: escalate, step up |
| (verb) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark | - |
| intransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivize |
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| intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
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| metastasise | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasize |
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| metastasize | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasise |
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| misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| mussitate | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mutter |
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| necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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| (verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
| occasion | (verb) give occasion to | - |
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| ossify | (verb) become bony | - |
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| (verb) cause to become hard and bony | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: petrify, rigidify |
| overemphasise | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasize, overstress |
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| overemphasize | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overstress |
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| oversimplify | (verb) simplify to an excessive degree | - |
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| pension | (verb) grant a pension to | Synonyms: pension off |
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| persist | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, prevail, run |
| photosensitise | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitize |
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| photosensitize | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitise |
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| posit | (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: postulate |
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| (verb) put before | Synonyms: put forward, state, submit |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate |
| position | (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, put, set |
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| (verb) cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | - |
| preside | (verb) act as president | - |
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| professionalise | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalize |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalize |