| institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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| institutionalised | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalized |
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| (adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalized |
| internalise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalize |
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| internationalise | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalize |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalize |
| labialise | (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialize, round |
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| legalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| lexicalise | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalize |
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| lexicalised | (adjective) expressed by a word | Synonyms: lexicalized |
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| liberalise | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalize |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalize |
| literalise | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalize |
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| localise | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localize, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localize |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localize |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localize, place |
| localised | (adjective) made local or oriented locally | Synonyms: localized |
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| (adjective) confined or restricted to a particular location | Synonyms: localized |
| lyophilise | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilize |
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| lyophilised | (adjective) used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: freeze-dried, lyophilized |
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| marginalise | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalize |
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| materialise | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialize |
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| memorialise | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialize |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialize |
| metabolise | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolize |
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| metagrabolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolized, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrobolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| millisecond | (noun) one thousandth (10^-3) of a second | Synonyms: msec |
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| mobilise | (verb) cause to move around | Synonyms: mobilize |
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| (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: marshal, mobilize, summon |
| (verb) get ready for war | Synonyms: mobilize |
| (verb) call to arms; of military personnel | Synonyms: call up, mobilize, rally |
| mongrelise | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelize |
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| monopolise | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolize |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolize |
| monopoliser | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopolist, monopolizer |
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| monumentalise | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalize |
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| moralise | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralize |
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| (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralize, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
| (verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralize |
| nasalise | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalize |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalize |
| nationalise | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalize |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalize |
| naturalise | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalize |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalize |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalize, tame |
| naturalised | (adjective) planted so as to give an effect of wild growth | Synonyms: naturalized |
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| nebuliser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| neutralise | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralize |
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| (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralize, nullify |
| (verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralize |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralize, waste |
| neutralised | (adjective) made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics | Synonyms: neutralized |
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| noncivilised | (adjective) not having a high state of culture and social development | Synonyms: noncivilized |
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| noninstitutionalised | (adjective) not committed to an institution | Synonyms: noninstitutionalized |
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| normalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalize, renormalise, renormalize |
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| (verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalize |
| normaliser | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normalizer |
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| novelise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelize |
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| occidentalise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalize, westernise, westernize |
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| officialise | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialize |
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| opalise | (verb) replace or convert into opal | Synonyms: opalize |
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| (verb) make opalescent | Synonyms: opalize |
| orientalise | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalize |
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| overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| overgeneralise | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralize |
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| overspecialise | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialize |
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| palatalise | (verb) pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate | Synonyms: palatalize |
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| palatalised | (adjective) produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') | Synonyms: palatal, palatalized |
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| penalise | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalize, punish |
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| personalise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalize |
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| personalised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalized |
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| pluralise | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralize |
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| professionalise | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalize |
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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: professionalize |
| ptyalise | (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalize, spew, spit, spue |
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| rationalise | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, prune, rationalize |
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| (verb) remove irrational quantities from | Synonyms: rationalize |
| (verb) think rationally; employ logic or reason | Synonyms: rationalize |
| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalize |
| (verb) structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results | Synonyms: rationalize |
| realise | (verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realize, see, understand |
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| (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realize, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realize, substantiate |
| (verb) expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass | Synonyms: realize |
| (verb) convert into cash; of goods and property | Synonyms: realize |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, make, pull in, realize, take in |
| realised | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: accomplished, completed, realized |
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| renormalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalize |
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| revitalise | (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| revitalised | (adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: reborn, revitalized |
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| ritualise | (verb) make or evolve into a ritual | Synonyms: ritualize |
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| scandalise | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalize, shock |
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| sectionalise | (verb) divide into sections, especially into geographic sections | Synonyms: sectionalize |
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| sensibilise | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensualise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualize |
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| sentimentalise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalize, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| serialise | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialize |
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| severalise | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalize |
| sexualise | (verb) make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to | Synonyms: sexualize |
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| signalise | (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: distinguish, signalize |
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| (verb) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalize |
| (verb) point out carefully and clearly | Synonyms: call attention, point out, signalize |
| (verb) provide with traffic signals | Synonyms: signalize |
| socialise | (verb) make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies | Synonyms: socialize |
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| (verb) prepare for social life | Synonyms: socialize |
| (verb) train for a social environment | Synonyms: socialize |
| (verb) take part in social activities; interact with others | Synonyms: socialize |
| socialised | (adjective) under group or government control | Synonyms: socialized |
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| socialiser | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socializer |
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| specialise | (verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow, narrow down, specialize |
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| (verb) suit to a special purpose | Synonyms: specialize |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: differentiate, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialize, specify |
| (verb) devote oneself to a special area of work | Synonyms: specialize |
| specialised | (adjective) developed or designed for a special activity or function | Synonyms: specialized |
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| specialiser | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialist, specializer |
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| spiritualise | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualize |
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| (verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualize |
| stabilise | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilize |
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| (verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilize |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilize, steady |
| stabilised | (adjective) made stable or firm | Synonyms: stabilized |
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| stabiliser | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabilizer |
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| sterilise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilize |
| sterilised | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilized |
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| steriliser | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: autoclave, sterilizer |
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| stylise | (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalize, stylize |
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| stylised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, conventionalized, stylized |
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| subtilise | (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilize |
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| subvocalise | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalize |
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| subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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| symbolise | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolize, typify |
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| (verb) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols | Synonyms: symbolize |
| symboliser | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symbolist, symbolizer |
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| tantalise | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| tantaliser | (noun) someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach | Synonyms: tantalizer |
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| territorialise | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialize |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
| totalise | (verb) make into a total | Synonyms: totalize |
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| totaliser | (noun) a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions | Synonyms: adding machine, totalizer |
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| (noun) computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won | Synonyms: pari-mutuel machine, totalisator, totalizator, totalizer |
| tranquillise | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillize |
| tranquilliser | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquillizer |
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| trivialise | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialize |
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| uncivilised | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, wild |
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| uncommercialised | (adjective) not having been commercialized | Synonyms: uncommercialized |
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