| metallize | (verb) coat with metal | Synonyms: metalize |
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| metastasize | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasise |
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| metricize | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metrify |
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| (verb) express in the metric system | Synonyms: metricise |
| militarize | (verb) adopt for military use | Synonyms: militarise |
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| (verb) lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force | Synonyms: militarise |
| mineralize | (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore | - |
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| (verb) convert into a mineral substance | - |
| miniaturize | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturise |
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| minimize | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimise |
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| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, derogate |
| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimise, understate |
| mobilize | (verb) cause to move around | Synonyms: mobilise |
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| (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: marshal, mobilise, summon |
| (verb) get ready for war | Synonyms: mobilise |
| (verb) call to arms; of military personnel | Synonyms: call up, mobilise, rally |
| modernize | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, overhaul |
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| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernise |
| moisturize | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturise |
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| monetize | (verb) give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetise |
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| mongrelize | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelise |
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| monologuize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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| monopolize | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolise |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolise |
| monumentalize | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalise |
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| moralize | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralise |
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| (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
| (verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralise |
| motorize | (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, mechanize, motorise |
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| (verb) equip with a motor | - |
| (verb) equip with a motor vehicle | - |
| mythicize | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythologise, mythologize |
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| (verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicise |
| mythologize | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythicize, mythologise |
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| (verb) construct a myth | Synonyms: mythologise |
| narcotize | (verb) administer narcotics to | Synonyms: narcotise |
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| nasalize | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalise |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalise |
| nationalize | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalise |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalise |
| naturalize | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalise |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame |
| (verb) explain with reference to nature | - |
| neutralize | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralise |
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| (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralise, nullify |
| (verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralise |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, waste |
| (verb) make politically neutral and thus inoffensive | - |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, countervail |
| nitrogenize | (verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrify, nitrogenise |
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| normalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, renormalise, renormalize |
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| (verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: anneal, temper |
| (verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalise |
| notarize | (verb) authenticate as a notary | Synonyms: notarise |
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| novelize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelise |
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| occidentalize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, westernise, westernize |
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| odorize | (verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odourise, scent |
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| officialize | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialise |
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| opalize | (verb) replace or convert into opal | Synonyms: opalise |
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| (verb) make opalescent | Synonyms: opalise |
| opsonize | (verb) make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes | - |
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| optimize | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimise |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimise |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimise |
| organize | (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: coordinate, organise |
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| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise |
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, machinate, organise, prepare |
| (verb) cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea | Synonyms: organise |
| (verb) create (as an entity) | Synonyms: form, organise |
| (verb) form or join a union | Synonyms: organise, unionise, unionize |
| orientalize | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalise |
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| ostracize | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracise |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun |
| overcapitalize | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| overdramatize | (verb) present in an overly dramatic manner | Synonyms: overdramatise |
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| overemphasize | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overstress |
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| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |