Words that rhyme with ais

v 1: assume certain affected attitudes [syn: attitudinize, attitudinise]

v 1: test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer [syn: breathalyze, breathalyse]

v 1: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" [syn: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten]

v 1: get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in Egypt" [syn: acclimatize, acclimatise, acclimate]

v 1: remove color from; "achromatize the lenses" [syn: achromatize, achromatise]

v 1: make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions" [syn: realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate] 2: represent or describe realistically [syn: actualize, actualise]

v 1: call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS" [syn: advertise, publicize, advertize, publicise] 2: make publicity for; try to sell (a product); "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops" [syn: advertise, advertize, promote, push]

v 1: give advice to; "The teacher counsels troubled students"; "The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud" [syn: rede, advise, counsel] 2: inform (somebody) of something; "I advised him that the rent was due" [syn: advise, notify, give notice, send word, apprise, apprize] 3: make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax" [syn: propose, suggest, advise]

v 1: add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise]

v 1: cause to agonize [syn: agonize, agonise] 2: suffer agony or anguish [syn: agonize, agonise]

v 1: alter (elements) by alchemy [syn: alchemize, alchemise]

v 1: treat or infuse with alcohol; "alcoholize the fruit and let them sit in the refrigerator" [syn: alcoholize, alcoholise] 2: make alcoholic, as by fermenting; "alcoholize prunes" [syn: alcoholize, alcoholise]

v 1: become alkaline [syn: alkalinize, alkalinise] 2: make (a substance) alkaline; "The oxide is alkalized" [syn: alkalinize, alkalinise]

v 1: turn basic and less acidic; "the solution alkalized" [syn: alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify] [ant: acetify, acidify]

v 1: interpret as an allegory [syn: allegorize, allegorise] 2: make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time" [syn: allegorize, allegorise]

n 1: the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945 2: in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers 3: an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy

v 1: arrange in alphabetical order; "Alphabetize the list" [syn: alphabetize, alphabetise]

v 1: cover with aluminum [syn: aluminize, aluminise]

v 1: liquidate gradually [syn: amortize, amortise]

v 1: make an analogy [syn: analogize, analogise]

v 1: consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" [syn: analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas] 2: break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market" [syn: analyze, analyse] 3: make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound" [syn: analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart] [ant: synthesise, synthesize] 4: subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" [syn: analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse]

v 1: curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment [syn: accurse, execrate, anathemize, comminate, anathemise, anathematize, anathematise]

v 1: dissect in order to analyze; "anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease" [syn: anatomize, anatomise]

v 1: make English in appearance; "She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London" [syn: anglicise, anglicize]

v 1: represent in the form of an animal [syn: animalize, animalise] 2: make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him" [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise] 3: become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise]

v 1: act in opposition to [syn: antagonize, antagonise, counteract] 2: provoke the hostility of; "Don't antagonize your boss" [syn: antagonize, antagonise]

v 1: compile an anthology [syn: anthologize, anthologise]

v 1: speak or write in aphorisms [syn: aphorize, aphorise]

v 1: defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success" [syn: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise] 2: acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes" [syn: apologize, apologise]

v 1: abandon one's beliefs or allegiances [syn: apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate]

v 1: use an apostrophe [syn: apostrophize, apostrophise]

v 1: deify or glorify [syn: apotheosize, apotheosise, apotheose]

v 1: inform (somebody) of something; "I advised him that the rent was due" [syn: advise, notify, give notice, send word, apprise, apprize] 2: make aware of; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?" [syn: instruct, apprise, apprize] 3: gain in value; "The yen appreciated again!" [syn: appreciate, apprize, apprise, revalue] [ant: depreciate, devaluate, devalue, undervalue] 4: increase the value of; "The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark" [syn: appreciate, apprize, apprise] [ant: depreciate]

v 1: give an archaic appearance of character to; "archaized craftwork" [syn: archaize, archaise]

v 1: come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow] 2: originate or come into being; "a question arose" [syn: arise, come up, bob up] 3: rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" [syn: arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up] [ant: lie, lie down, sit, sit down] 4: result or issue; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion" [syn: arise, come up] 5: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down] 6: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance [syn: rebel, arise, rise, rise up] 7: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in]

v 1: fill or impregnate with an odor; "orange blossoms perfumed the air in the garden" [syn: perfume, aromatize, aromatise]

v 1: change venous blood into arterial blood [syn: arterialize, arterialise]

n 1: the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale 2: an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property

v 1: spray very finely; "atomize perfume" [syn: atomize, atomise] 2: strike at with firepower or bombs; "zap the enemy" [syn: nuke, atomize, atomise, zap] 3: break up into small particles; "the fine powder had been atomized by air" [syn: atomize, atomise]

v 1: give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers" [syn: empower, authorise, authorize] 2: grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography" [syn: authorize, authorise, pass, clear]

v 1: divide a territory into small, hostile states [syn: Balkanize, Balkanise]

v 1: administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized" [syn: baptize, baptise, christen]

v 1: become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language [syn: barbarize, barbarise] 2: make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man" [syn: barbarize, barbarise]

v 1: change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms [syn: bastardize, bastardise] 2: declare a child to be illegitimate [syn: bastardize, bastardise]

v 1: make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to [syn: bestialize, bestialise]

v 1: treat with bitumen [syn: bituminize, bituminise]

v 1: collect and study plants [syn: botanize, botanise]

v 1: treat brutally [syn: brutalize, brutalise] 2: make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him" [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise] 3: become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise]

v 1: provide (a city) with a canal [syn: canal, canalize, canalise] 2: direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad audience" [syn: channel, canalize, canalise]

v 1: treat as a sacred person; "He canonizes women" [syn: canonize, canonise] 2: declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized" [syn: canonize, canonise, saint]

v 1: supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders [syn: capitalize, capitalise] 2: draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover" [syn: capitalize, capitalise, take advantage] 3: write in capital letters [syn: capitalize, capitalise] 4: compute the present value of a business or an income [syn: capitalize, capitalise] 5: consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses [syn: capitalize, capitalise] 6: convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital [syn: capitalize, capitalise]

v 1: convert a cock into a capon [syn: caponize, caponise]

v 1: overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!" [syn: capsize, turtle, turn turtle]

v 1: be converted into caramel; "The sugar caramelized" [syn: caramelize, caramelise] 2: convert to caramel [syn: caramelize, caramelise]

v 1: unite with carbon; "carburize metal" [syn: carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise] 2: turn into carbon, as by burning; "carbonize coal" [syn: carbonize, carbonise]

v 1: unite with carbon; "carburize metal" [syn: carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise]

v 1: change by catalysis or cause to catalyze [syn: catalyze, catalyse]

v 1: place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize" [syn: categorize, categorise]

v 1: insert a catheter into (a body part); "catheterize the patient's bladder" [syn: catheterize, catheterise]

v 1: cause to adopt Catholicism [syn: catholicize, catholicise, latinize, latinise]

v 1: burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart" [syn: cauterize, cauterise, burn] 2: make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals [syn: callous, cauterize, cauterise]

v 1: make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food" [syn: centralize, centralise, concentrate] [ant: decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate]

v 1: be characteristic of; "What characterizes a Venetian painting?" [syn: characterize, characterise] 2: describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover" [syn: qualify, characterize, characterise]

v 1: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct]

v 1: canvass by distributing letters [syn: circularize, circularise] 2: distribute circulars to [syn: circularize, circularise] 3: cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around]

v 1: cut the skin over the clitoris 2: cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys; "During the bris, the baby boy is circumcised"

v 1: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise] 2: raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized" [syn: civilize, civilise]

v 1: make classic or classical [syn: classicize, classicise]

adv 1: in the direction that the hands of a clock move; "please move clockwise in a circle" [ant: anticlockwise, counterclockwise] adj 1: in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock [ant: anticlockwise, contraclockwise, counterclockwise]

adv 1: by way of, or along the coast; "we were travelling coastwise" adj 1: along or following a coast; "coastal shipping"; "coastwise winds contributed to the storm"

v 1: anesthetize with cocaine [syn: cocainize, cocainise]

v 1: be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" [syn: know, cognize, cognise] [ant: ignore]

v 1: settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century" [syn: colonize, colonise] [ant: decolonise, decolonize] 2: settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast" [syn: colonize, colonise]

v 1: make something the property of the commune or community [syn: communalize, communalise]

v 1: make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles; "communize the government" [syn: communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise] 2: make into property owned by the state; "The new government communized all banks" [syn: communize, communise]

v 1: be composed of; "The land he conquered comprised several provinces"; "What does this dish consist of?" [syn: consist, comprise] 2: include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's" [syn: incorporate, contain, comprise] 3: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be]

n 1: a middle way between two extremes [syn: compromise, via media] 2: an accommodation in which both sides make concessions; "the newly elected congressmen rejected a compromise because they considered it `business as usual'" v 1: make a compromise; arrive at a compromise; "nobody will get everything he wants; we all must compromise" 2: settle by concession 3: expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute; "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy"

v 1: happen at the same time [syn: synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise] 2: arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events" [syn: synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise]

adv 1: in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely, contrarily, contrariwise] 2: with the order reversed; "she hates him and vice versa" [syn: vice versa, the other way around, contrariwise] 3: contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends" [syn: contrarily, to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contrary]

adj 1: (of movement) at an angle [syn: crabwise, sideways]

v 1: find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free" [syn: knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart] [ant: praise] 2: act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either" [syn: criticize, criticise]

adv 1: not in the intended manner; "things are going crosswise" 2: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn: across, crosswise, crossways] adj 1: lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction; "a crosswise street"; "the crosswise dimension" [ant: lengthways, lengthwise] 2: in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross

v 1: make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" [syn: clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate] 2: cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form; "crystallize minerals" [syn: crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise] 3: cause to take on a definite and clear shape; "He tried to crystallize his thoughts" [syn: crystallize, crystallise, crystalise, crystalize]

v 1: remove carbon from (an engine) [syn: decarbonize, decarbonise, decarburize, decarburise, decoke]

v 1: remove carbon from (an engine) [syn: decarbonize, decarbonise, decarburize, decarburise, decoke]

v 1: make less central; "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized" [syn: decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise] [ant: centralise, centralize, concentrate]

v 1: change from fractions to decimals; "Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000" [syn: decimalize, decimalise] 2: change to the decimal system; "The country decimalized the currency in 1975" [syn: decimalize, decimalise]

v 1: grant independence to (a former colony); "West Africa was decolonized in the early 1960's" [syn: decolonize, decolonise] [ant: colonise, colonize]

v 1: remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt" [syn: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise]

v 1: deprive of human qualities; "Life in poverty has dehumanized them" [syn: dehumanize, dehumanise] [ant: humanise, humanize] 2: make mechanical or routine [syn: dehumanize, dehumanise]

v 1: erase (a magnetic storage device) [syn: demagnetize, demagnetise] 2: make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of); "demagnetize the iron shavings"; "they degaussed the ship" [syn: demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss] [ant: magnetise, magnetize]

v 1: do away with the military organization and potential of [syn: demilitarize, demilitarise] [ant: militarise, militarize] 2: remove offensive capability from [syn: disarm, demilitarize, demilitarise] [ant: arm, build up, fortify, gird]

n 1: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, dying, demise] [ant: birth] v 1: transfer by a lease or by a will

v 1: release from military service or remove from the active list of military service [syn: demobilize, inactivate, demobilise] [ant: call up, mobilise, mobilize, rally] 2: retire from military service [syn: demobilize, demobilise, demob] [ant: mobilise, mobilize]

v 1: become (more) democratic; of nations [syn: democratize, democratise] 2: introduce democratic reforms; of nations [syn: democratize, democratise]

v 1: deprive of value for payment; "demonetize a coin" [syn: demonetize, demonetise]

v 1: make into a demon; "Power had demonized him" [syn: demonize, demonise]

v 1: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect] 2: lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" [syn: depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise] [ant: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift]

v 1: make less natural or unnatural [syn: denaturalize, denaturalise] [ant: naturalise, naturalize] 2: strip of the rights and duties of citizenship; "The former Nazi was denaturalized" [syn: denaturalize, denaturalise] [ant: naturalise, naturalize]

v 1: eliminate the odor from; "This stick will deodorize your armpits" [syn: deodorize, deodorise, deodourise] [ant: odorize, odourise, scent]