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 |
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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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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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 |
commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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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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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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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 |
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 |
decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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(verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
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 |
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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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 |
idolise | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolize, revere, worship |
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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 |
industrialise | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialize |
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(verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialize |
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 |
institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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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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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 |
lyophilise | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilize |
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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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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |