| overgeneralize | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralise |
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| overspecialize | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialise |
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| oxidize | (verb) add oxygen to or combine with oxygen | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidise |
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| (verb) enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide | Synonyms: oxidate, oxidise |
| oxygenize | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenate, oxygenise |
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| (verb) dehydrogenate with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenise |
| (verb) change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule) | Synonyms: oxygenise |
| ozonise | (verb) convert (oxygen) into ozone | Synonyms: ozonize |
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| ozonize | (verb) convert (oxygen) into ozone | Synonyms: ozonise |
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| paganize | (verb) make pagan in character | Synonyms: paganise |
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| palatalize | (verb) pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate | Synonyms: palatalise |
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| parallelize | (verb) place parallel to one another | - |
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| paralyze | (verb) cause to be paralyzed and immobile | Synonyms: paralyse |
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| (verb) make powerless and unable to function | Synonyms: paralyse |
| particularize | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| pasteurize | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurise |
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| patinize | (verb) coat with a patina | Synonyms: patinate, patinise |
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| patronize | (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, support |
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| (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: condescend, patronise |
| (verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronise, sponsor |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| pauperize | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperise |
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| penalize | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, punish |
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| peptize | (verb) disperse in a medium into a colloidal state | Synonyms: peptise |
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| personalize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalise |
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| philosophize | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophise |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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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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| plagiarize | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarise |
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| plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
| platinize | (verb) coat with metallic platinum | - |
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| platitudinize | (verb) utter platitudes | - |
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| pluralize | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralise |
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| poetize | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, verse, versify |
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| polarize | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarise |
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| (verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarise |
| (verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarise |
| polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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| polemize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemise |
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| politicize | (verb) give a political character to | Synonyms: politicise |
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| polychromize | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromise |
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| polymerize | (verb) undergo polymerization | Synonyms: polymerise |
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| (verb) cause (a compound) to polymerize | Synonyms: polymerise |
| popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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| powderize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
| pressurize | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurise |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurise |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, supercharge |
| prioritize | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritise |
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| privatize | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatise |
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| prize | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, respect, value |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prise, pry |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, treasure, value |
| prizefight | (verb) box for a prize or money | - |
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| professionalize | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalise |
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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: professionalise |
| prologize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologuize |
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| prologuize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologize |
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| propagandize | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
| proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytise |
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| psychoanalyze | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyse |
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| ptyalize | (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, spew, spit, spue |
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| publicize | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicise |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicise |
| pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
| puzzle | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide | - |
| quantize | (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 | Synonyms: quantise |
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| (verb) approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values | Synonyms: quantise |
| quiz | (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: test |
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| radicalize | (verb) make more radical in social or political outlook | - |
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| randomize | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomise |
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| rasterize | (verb) convert (an image) into pixels | - |
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| rationalize | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, prune, rationalise |
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| (verb) remove irrational quantities from | Synonyms: rationalise |
| (verb) think rationally; employ logic or reason | Synonyms: rationalise |
| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalise |
| (verb) structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results | Synonyms: rationalise |
| raze | (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: dismantle, level, pull down, rase, take down, tear down |
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| razor | (verb) shave with a razor | - |
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| razz | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| realize | (verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realise, see, understand |
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| (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realise, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, substantiate |
| (verb) expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass | Synonyms: realise |
| (verb) convert into cash; of goods and property | Synonyms: realise |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, take in |
| recognize | (verb) perceive to be the same | Synonyms: recognise |
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| (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realise, realize, recognise |
| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: acknowledge, know, recognise |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: acknowledge, recognise |
| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: greet, recognise |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, spot, tell apart |
| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: accredit, recognise |
| (verb) show approval or appreciation of | Synonyms: recognise |
| (verb) exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate) | - |
| reflectorize | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorise |
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| regularize | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularise |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regulate |
| reharmonize | (verb) provide with a different harmony | Synonyms: reharmonise |
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| relativize | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativise |
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| remilitarize | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarise |
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| rendezvous | (verb) meet at a rendezvous | - |
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| renormalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalise |
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| reorganize | (verb) organize anew | Synonyms: reorganise, shake up |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: regroup, reorganise |
| reprize | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprise |
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| resize | (verb) change the size of; make the size more appropriate | - |
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| revitalize | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: regenerate |
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| (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalise |
| revolutionize | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionise |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionise |
| (verb) overthrow by a revolution, of governments | - |
| rhapsodize | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
| ritualize | (verb) make or evolve into a ritual | Synonyms: ritualise |
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| romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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| (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |
| rubberize | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberise |
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| ruggedize | (verb) produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage | Synonyms: ruggedise |
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| sanitize | (verb) make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features | Synonyms: sanitise |
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| (verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, hygienize, sanitise |
| satirize | (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: lampoon, satirise |
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| scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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| schematize | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematise |
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| (verb) formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula | - |
| schmooze | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, shmoose, shmooze |
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| scrutinize | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinise |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinise, size up, take stock |
| sectionalize | (verb) divide into sections, especially into geographic sections | Synonyms: sectionalise |
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| secularize | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularise |
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| (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: desacralize |
| seize | (verb) capture the attention or imagination of | Synonyms: grab |
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| (verb) affect | Synonyms: clutch, get hold of |
| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, prehend, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) take or capture by force | - |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, conquer |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, sequester |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, assume, take over, usurp |
| sensibilize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensitize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitise |
| sensualize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualise |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: carnalize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: carnalize |
| sentimentalize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| sentimentize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentise |
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| serialize | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialise |
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| sermonize | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, preachify, sermonise |
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| severalize | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalise |
| sexualize | (verb) make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to | Synonyms: sexualise |
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| shamanize | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanise |
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| shmooze | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose |
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| signalize | (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: distinguish, signalise |
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| (verb) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalise |
| (verb) point out carefully and clearly | Synonyms: call attention, point out, signalise |
| (verb) provide with traffic signals | Synonyms: signalise |