| aggrandize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandizement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, elevation |
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| anodize | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodise |
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| bastardization | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardisation |
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| (noun) declaring or rendering bastard | - |
| bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
| bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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| bedizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: dizen |
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| (verb) decorate tastelessly | - |
| 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 | Synonyms: deoxidise, reduce |
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| dizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: bedizen |
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| dizygotic | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygous |
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| dizygous | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygotic |
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| dizzily | (adverb) in a giddy light-headed manner | Synonyms: giddily, light-headedly |
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| dizziness | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
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| dizzy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: giddy, vertiginous, woozy |
| (verb) make dizzy or giddy | - |
| fluoridization | (noun) the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay) | Synonyms: fluoridation, fluoridisation |
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| fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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| gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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| hybridization | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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| hybridizing | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding |
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| iodize | (verb) treat with iodine so as to prevent infection | Synonyms: iodise |
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| (verb) treat with iodine | Synonyms: iodise |
| iodized | (adjective) treated with iodine | Synonyms: iodinated, iodised |
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| jeopardize | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, stake, venture |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, menace, peril, threaten |
| liquidize | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquify |
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| (verb) sell or get rid of all one's merchandise | Synonyms: sell out, sell up |
| liquidizer | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: blender, liquidiser |
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| melodize | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodise |
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| oxidizable | (adjective) capable of undergoing a chemical reaction with oxygen | - |
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| oxidization | (noun) the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction | Synonyms: oxidation, oxidisation |
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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 |
| oxidized | (adjective) combined with or having undergone a chemical reaction with oxygen | Synonyms: oxidised |
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| oxidizer | (noun) a substance that oxidizes another substance | Synonyms: oxidant, oxidiser, oxidizing agent |
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| propagandize | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
| rhapsodize | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
| ruggedization | (noun) the act of making a piece of equipment rugged (strengthening to resist wear or abuse) | Synonyms: ruggedisation |
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| ruggedize | (verb) produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage | Synonyms: ruggedise |
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| standardization | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: calibration, standardisation |
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| (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, normalization, standardisation |
| (noun) the condition in which a standard has been successfully established | Synonyms: standardisation |
| standardize | (verb) cause to conform to standard or norm | Synonyms: standardise |
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| (verb) evaluate by comparing with a standard | Synonyms: standardise |
| standardized | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, similar, standardised |
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| (adjective) brought into conformity with a standard | Synonyms: standardised |
| standardizer | (noun) a person who sets a standard for things to conform to | Synonyms: standardiser |
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| subsidization | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: grant, subsidisation |
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| (noun) money (or other benefits) obtained as a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidisation |
| subsidize | (verb) support through subsidies | Synonyms: subsidise |
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| (verb) secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces | Synonyms: subsidise |
| subsidized | (adjective) having partial financial support from public funds | Synonyms: subsidised |
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| subsidizer | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidiser |
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