| acetylise | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
| actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
| aerosolise | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
| aerosolised | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolized |
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| alcoholise | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholize |
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| (verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholize |
| alkalise | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalize, basify |
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| alkaliser | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkalizer, antacid, antiacid, gastric antacid |
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| animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
| (verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
| arterialise | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialize |
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| bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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| brutalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalize |
| canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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| cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
| cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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| (verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
| (verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
| capsulise | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulize, encapsulate |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulize |
| caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
| carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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| catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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| centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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| centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilised | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilized |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| coliseum | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, amphitheatre |
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| commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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| commercialised | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialized |
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| communalise | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalize |
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| compartmentalise | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalize, cut up |
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| compartmentalised | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalized |
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| conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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| conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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| criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| crystalise | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallize, effloresce |
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| (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystalised | (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalized, glace |
| crystallise | (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
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| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystallised | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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| decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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| (verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| deglycerolise | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolize |
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| dematerialise | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialize |
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| demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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| demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
| demoralise | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| demoralised | (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralized, discouraged, disheartened |
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| denationalise | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalize |
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| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| depersonalise | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalize, objectify |
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| desexualise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | Synonyms: desexualize |
| destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
| detribalise | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalize |
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| devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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| diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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| diagonalise | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalize |
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| digitalise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalize, digitise, digitize |
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| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| equalise | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalize, equate, match |
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| (verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalize, get even |
| equaliser | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equalizer |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equalizer |
| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| etherialise | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherealize |
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| evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
| externalise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalize, project |
| federalise | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalize |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
| fertilise | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilize |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize |
| fertiliser | (noun) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | Synonyms: fertilizer, plant food |
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| fictionalise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalize, novelise, novelize |
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| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalize, retell |
| finalise | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalize, nail down, settle |
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| focalise | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus |
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| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus, sharpen |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalize, focus |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalize, localise, localize |
| formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
| formalised | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalistic, formalized |
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| (adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalized |
| fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
| fossilised | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilized, ossified |
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| generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalised | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalized |
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| genlisea | (noun) rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs | - |
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| globalise | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalize |
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| glycerolise | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolize |
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| gyrostabiliser | (noun) a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane | Synonyms: gyrostabilizer |
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| hospitalise | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalize |
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| hydrolise | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolize |
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| hyperbolise | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| idealise | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealize |
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| (verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealize |
| idealised | (adjective) exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence | Synonyms: idealized |
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| idolise | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolize, revere, worship |
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| idolised | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: adored, idolized, worshipped |
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| idoliser | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idolater, idolizer |
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| (noun) a lover blind with admiration and devotion | Synonyms: idolizer |
| illegalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalize, outlaw |
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| immaterialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immobilise | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilize |
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| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilize |
| (verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
| (verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilize |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilize, pin, trap |
| (verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
| immortalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalize |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| individualise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualize, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualize |
| individualised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualized, personalised, personalized |
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| industrialise | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialize |
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| (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialize |
| industrialised | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialized |
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| initialise | (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: format, initialize |
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| (verb) assign an initial value to a computer program | Synonyms: initialize |