apotheosize | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheose, apotheosise |
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assize | (noun) an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property | - |
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(noun) the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale | - |
assizes | (noun) the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by Crown courts) | Synonyms: court of assize, court of assize and nisi prius |
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capsize | (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: turn turtle, turtle |
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capsizing | (noun) (nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water | - |
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downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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(verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
(verb) dismiss from work | - |
downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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(verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
emphasized | (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasised, emphatic |
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emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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fantasize | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasy |
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(verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasise |
hypothesize | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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lifesize | (adjective) being of the same size as an original | Synonyms: full-size, life-size, life-sized |
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metastasize | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasise |
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outsize | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsized, oversize, oversized |
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(noun) an unusual garment size (especially one that is very large) | - |
outsized | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, oversize, oversized |
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overemphasize | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overstress |
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oversize | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversized |
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oversized | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversize |
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resize | (verb) change the size of; make the size more appropriate | - |
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sizable | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizeable, tidy |
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(adjective) fairly large in size | Synonyms: ample, sizeable |
size | (adjective) (used in combination) sized | - |
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(noun) the physical magnitude of something (how big it is) | - |
(noun) the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing) | - |
(noun) a large magnitude | - |
(noun) the actual state of affairs | Synonyms: size of it |
(noun) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics | Synonyms: sizing |
(verb) make to a size; bring to a suitable size | - |
(verb) sort according to size | - |
(verb) cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance) | - |
sizeable | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, tidy |
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(adjective) fairly large in size | Synonyms: ample, sizable |
sizeableness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, vastness, wideness |
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sized | (adjective) having a specified size | - |
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(adjective) having the surface treated or coated with sizing | - |
sizing | (noun) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics | Synonyms: size |
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sizz | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, siss |
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(verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, siss |
sizzle | (noun) a sizzling noise | - |
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(verb) burn or sear with a sizzling sound | - |
(verb) make a sound like frying fat | - |
(verb) seethe with deep anger or resentment | - |
sizzling | (adjective) hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound | - |
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(adjective) characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement | Synonyms: red-hot |
synthesize | (verb) combine so as to form a more complex, product | Synonyms: synthesise |
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(verb) combine and form a synthesis | - |
synthesizer | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesiser |
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(noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesiser, synthesist |
undersize | (adjective) smaller than normal for its kind | Synonyms: undersized |
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undersized | (adjective) smaller than normal for its kind | Synonyms: undersize |
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unsized | (adjective) not fashioned to sizes | - |
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(adjective) not having the surface treated or coated with sizing | - |