| anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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| antisepticize | (verb) disinfect with an antiseptic | - |
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| catholicize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, latinise, latinize |
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| classicize | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicise |
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| criticize | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, knock, pick apart |
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| (verb) act as a critic | Synonyms: criticise |
| domesticize | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, reclaim, tame |
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| eroticize | (verb) give erotic character to or make more interesting | Synonyms: sex up |
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| exorcize | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcise |
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| italicize | (verb) print in italics | Synonyms: italicise |
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| laicize | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicise |
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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 |
| mythicize | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythologise, mythologize |
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| (verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicise |
| ostracize | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracise |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun |
| plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
| polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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| politicize | (verb) give a political character to | Synonyms: politicise |
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| publicize | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicise |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicise |
| romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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| (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |