euthanize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanise, mercy kill |
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evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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(verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
exorcize | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcise |
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extemporize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, improvise, improvize |
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(verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: improvise |
exteriorize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, externalise, externalize, objectify |
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(verb) bring outside the body for surgery, of organs | Synonyms: bring outside |
externalize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, objectify |
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(verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, project |
factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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fantasize | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasy |
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(verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasise |
federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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(verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
(verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
feminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, womanize |
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(verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminise |
fertilize | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate |
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(verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilise |
(verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise |
fetishize | (verb) make a fetish of | - |
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feudalize | (verb) bring (a country or people) under feudalism | - |
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fictionalize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, novelise, novelize |
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(verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, retell |
finalize | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, nail down, settle |
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fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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focalize | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus |
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(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus, sharpen |
(verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focus |
(verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, localise, localize |
formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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(verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
fragmentize | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentise |
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fraternize | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternise |
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galvanize | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanise |
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(verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanise |
(verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, startle |
gelatinize | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
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(verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
(verb) coat with gelatin | - |
generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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(verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
(verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
ghettoize | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoise |
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glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
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(verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
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globalize | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalise |
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gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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harmonize | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonise |
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(verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, reconcile |
(verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise |
homogenize | (verb) become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
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(verb) cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
(verb) break up the fat globules of | Synonyms: homogenise |
homologize | (verb) make homologous | Synonyms: homologise |
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(verb) be homologous | - |
hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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humanize | (verb) make more humane | Synonyms: humanise |
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hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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hydrolize | (verb) make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | Synonyms: hydrolise |
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hygienize | (verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, sanitise, sanitize |
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hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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hypnotize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, mesmerise, mesmerize |
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hypophysectomize | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomise |
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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 |
idolize | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship |
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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 |
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 |
industrialize | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialise |
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(verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialise |
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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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 |
ionize | (verb) convert into ions | Synonyms: ionise |
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(verb) become converted into ions | Synonyms: ionise |
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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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 |
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 |
lyophilize | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilise |
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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 |
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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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 |
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 |