| hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hypersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypnotize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, mesmerise, mesmerize |
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| hypnotized | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| hypnotizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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| hypophysectomize | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomise |
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| hypophysectomized | (adjective) having the pituitary gland removed by surgery | Synonyms: hypophysectomised |
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| hypostatize | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatise |
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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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| idealize | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealise |
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| (verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealise |
| idealized | (adjective) exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence | Synonyms: idealised |
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| idolize | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship |
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| idolized | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: adored, idolised, worshipped |
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| idolizer | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idolater, idoliser |
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| (noun) a lover blind with admiration and devotion | Synonyms: idoliser |
| illegalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, outlaw |
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| immaterialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immobilize | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilise |
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| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilise |
| (verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, pin, trap |
| (verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| immortalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, memorialise, memorialize |
| immunize | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunise |
| immunized | (adjective) having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease | Synonyms: immunised, vaccinated |
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| improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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| individualize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualise |
| individualized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, personalised, personalized |
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| industrialize | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialise |
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| (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialise |
| industrialized | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialised |
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| initialize | (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: format, initialise |
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| (verb) assign an initial value to a computer program | Synonyms: initialise |
| institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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| institutionalized | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalised |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalised |
| interiorize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, internalise, internalize |
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| internalize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalise |
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| internationalize | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalise |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalise |
| intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
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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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| ionize | (verb) convert into ions | Synonyms: ionise |
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| (verb) become converted into ions | Synonyms: ionise |
| ionized | (adjective) converted totally or partly into ions | Synonyms: ionised |
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| isomerize | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
| italicize | (verb) print in italics | Synonyms: italicise |
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| itemize | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemise, recite |
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| (verb) place on a list of items | Synonyms: itemise |
| 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 |
| keratinize | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
| labialize | (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, round |
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| laicize | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicise |
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| lateralize | (verb) move or displace to one side so as to make lateral | - |
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| latinize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, catholicize, latinise |
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| legalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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| lexicalize | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalise |
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| lexicalized | (adjective) expressed by a word | Synonyms: lexicalised |
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| liberalize | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalise |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalise |
| lifesize | (adjective) being of the same size as an original | Synonyms: full-size, life-size, life-sized |
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| linearize | (verb) make linear or get into a linear form | Synonyms: linearise |
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| lionize | (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: celebrate, lionise |
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| 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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| literalize | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalise |
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| localize | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localise |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localise |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, place |
| localized | (adjective) made local or oriented locally | Synonyms: localised |
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| (adjective) confined or restricted to a particular location | Synonyms: localised |
| lyophilize | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilise |
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| lyophilized | (adjective) used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: freeze-dried, lyophilised |
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| lysogenize | (verb) become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium) | - |
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| macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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| magnetize | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnetized | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetised |
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| maize | (noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow |
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| (noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: corn, Indian corn, Zea mays |
| marbleize | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleise |
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| marbleized | (adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble | Synonyms: marbled, marbleised |
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| marginalize | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalise |
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| martyrize | (verb) torture and torment like a martyr | Synonyms: martyr, martyrise |
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| masculinize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, virilise, virilize |
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| (verb) give a masculine appearance or character to | - |
| materialize | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialise |
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| maximize | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximise |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximise |
| mechanize | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanise |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanise |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, motorise, motorize |
| mechanized | (adjective) equipped with machinery | Synonyms: mechanised |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanised, motorized |
| melanize | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, blacken, melanise |
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| (verb) convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | Synonyms: melanise |
| melodize | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodise |
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| memorialize | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialise |
| memorize | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorise |
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| memorizer | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memoriser |
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| mercerize | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerise |
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| mercerized | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerised |
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| mesmerize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, spellbind |
| mesmerized | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| mesmerizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist |
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| metabolize | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolise |
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| metagrabolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrobolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolised, mystified |
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| metalize | (verb) coat with metal | Synonyms: metallize |
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| 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 |
| militarized | (adjective) issued military arms | Synonyms: militarised |
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| 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 |
| minimized | (adjective) reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree | - |
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| mizen | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizenmast, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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| (noun) fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizzen |
| mizenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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