| penalize | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, punish |
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| peptize | (verb) disperse in a medium into a colloidal state | Synonyms: peptise |
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| personalize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalise |
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| philosophize | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophise |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| photosensitize | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitise |
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| plagiarize | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarise |
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| 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 |
| platinize | (verb) coat with metallic platinum | - |
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| platitudinize | (verb) utter platitudes | - |
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| pluralize | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralise |
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| poetize | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, verse, versify |
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| polarize | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarise |
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| (verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarise |
| (verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarise |
| polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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| polemize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemise |
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| politicize | (verb) give a political character to | Synonyms: politicise |
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| polychromize | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromise |
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| polymerize | (verb) undergo polymerization | Synonyms: polymerise |
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| (verb) cause (a compound) to polymerize | Synonyms: polymerise |
| popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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| powderize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
| pressurize | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurise |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurise |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, supercharge |
| prioritize | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritise |
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| privatize | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatise |
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| prize | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, quality, select |
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| (noun) something given as a token of victory | Synonyms: trophy |
| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: award |
| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, swag |
| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, respect, value |
| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prise, pry |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, treasure, value |
| professionalize | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalise |
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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: professionalise |
| prologize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologuize |
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| prologuize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologize |
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| propagandize | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
| proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytise |
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| psychoanalyze | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyse |
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| ptyalize | (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, spew, spit, spue |
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| publicize | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicise |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicise |
| pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
| quantize | (verb) apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor | Synonyms: quantise |
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| (verb) approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values | Synonyms: quantise |
| radicalize | (verb) make more radical in social or political outlook | - |
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| randomize | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomise |
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| rasterize | (verb) convert (an image) into pixels | - |
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| rationalize | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, prune, rationalise |
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| (verb) remove irrational quantities from | Synonyms: rationalise |
| (verb) think rationally; employ logic or reason | Synonyms: rationalise |
| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalise |
| (verb) structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results | Synonyms: rationalise |
| raze | (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: dismantle, level, pull down, rase, take down, tear down |
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| realize | (verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realise, see, understand |
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| (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realise, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, substantiate |
| (verb) expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass | Synonyms: realise |
| (verb) convert into cash; of goods and property | Synonyms: realise |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, take in |
| recognize | (verb) perceive to be the same | Synonyms: recognise |
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| (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realise, realize, recognise |
| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: acknowledge, know, recognise |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: acknowledge, recognise |
| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: greet, recognise |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, spot, tell apart |
| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: accredit, recognise |
| (verb) show approval or appreciation of | Synonyms: recognise |
| (verb) exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate) | - |
| reflectorize | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorise |
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| regularize | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularise |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regulate |
| reharmonize | (verb) provide with a different harmony | Synonyms: reharmonise |
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| relativize | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativise |
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| remilitarize | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarise |
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| renormalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalise |
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| reorganize | (verb) organize anew | Synonyms: reorganise, shake up |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: regroup, reorganise |
| reprize | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprise |
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| resize | (verb) change the size of; make the size more appropriate | - |
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| revitalize | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: regenerate |
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| (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalise |
| revolutionize | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionise |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionise |
| (verb) overthrow by a revolution, of governments | - |
| rhapsodize | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
| ritualize | (verb) make or evolve into a ritual | Synonyms: ritualise |
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| 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 |
| rubberize | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberise |
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| ruggedize | (verb) produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage | Synonyms: ruggedise |
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| sanitize | (verb) make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features | Synonyms: sanitise |
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| (verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, hygienize, sanitise |
| satirize | (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: lampoon, satirise |
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| scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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| schematize | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematise |
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| (verb) formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula | - |
| schmooze | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose |
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| (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, shmoose, shmooze |
| scrutinize | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinise |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinise, size up, take stock |
| sectionalize | (verb) divide into sections, especially into geographic sections | Synonyms: sectionalise |
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| secularize | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularise |
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| (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: desacralize |
| seize | (verb) capture the attention or imagination of | Synonyms: grab |
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| (verb) affect | Synonyms: clutch, get hold of |
| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, prehend, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) take or capture by force | - |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, conquer |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, sequester |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, assume, take over, usurp |
| sensibilize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensitize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitise |
| sensualize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualise |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: carnalize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: carnalize |
| sentimentalize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| sentimentize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentise |
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| serialize | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialise |
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| sermonize | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, preachify, sermonise |
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| severalize | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalise |
| sexualize | (verb) make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to | Synonyms: sexualise |
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| shamanize | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanise |
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| shmooze | (noun) (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk | - |
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| (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose |
| signalize | (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: distinguish, signalise |
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| (verb) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalise |
| (verb) point out carefully and clearly | Synonyms: call attention, point out, signalise |
| (verb) provide with traffic signals | Synonyms: signalise |
| singularize | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularise |
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| 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) | - |
| sleaze | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, tackiness, tat |
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| slenderize | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderise |
| sneeze | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneezing, sternutation |
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| (verb) exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose | - |
| snooze | (noun) sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) | Synonyms: catnap, forty winks, light sleep, nap, short sleep |
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| (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, drowse |
| socialize | (verb) make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies | Synonyms: socialise |
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| (verb) prepare for social life | Synonyms: socialise |
| (verb) train for a social environment | Synonyms: socialise |
| (verb) take part in social activities; interact with others | Synonyms: socialise |
| sodomize | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: bugger, sodomise |
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| (verb) copulate with an animal | Synonyms: sodomise |
| solarize | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarise, sun |
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| (verb) overexpose to sunlight | Synonyms: solarise |
| (verb) become overexposed | Synonyms: solarise |
| (verb) reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it | Synonyms: solarise |
| solemnize | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnise |
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| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnise |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnise |
| soliloquize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise |
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| sorcerize | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerise |
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| sovietize | (verb) model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union | Synonyms: sovietise |
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| (verb) bring under Soviet control, of a country | Synonyms: sovietise |
| specialize | (verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow, narrow down, specialise |
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| (verb) suit to a special purpose | Synonyms: specialise |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: differentiate, specialise, speciate |
| (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialise, specify |
| (verb) devote oneself to a special area of work | Synonyms: specialise |
| spiritize | (verb) imbue with a spirit | Synonyms: spiritise |
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| spiritualize | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualise |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, transfigure |
| (verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualise |
| spondaize | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaise |
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| squeeze | (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | Synonyms: squeezing |
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| (noun) an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power | Synonyms: power play, squeeze play |
| (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: clinch, hug |
| (noun) the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space | - |
| (noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: wring |
| (noun) (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend | - |
| (noun) a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer | - |
| (noun) a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high | Synonyms: credit crunch, liquidity crisis |
| (verb) press firmly | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, press |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, wedge |
| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, embrace, hug |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squash, squelch |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, stuff, thrust |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, rack, wring |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, pressure |
| stabilize | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilise |
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| (verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilise |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, steady |
| stalinize | (verb) transform in accordance with Stalin's policies | Synonyms: stalinise |
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| standardize | (verb) cause to conform to standard or norm | Synonyms: standardise |
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| (verb) evaluate by comparing with a standard | Synonyms: standardise |