Words that rhyme with allies

• actualise 0
  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]
• advertise 0
  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]
• advise 0
  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]
• alkalise 0
  v 1: turn basic and less acidic; "the solution alkalized" [syn: alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify] [ant: acetify, acidify]
• amortise 0
  v 1: liquidate gradually [syn: amortize, amortise]
• animalise 0
  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]
• apprise 0
  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]
• arise 0
  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]
• arterialise 0
  v 1: change venous blood into arterial blood [syn: arterialize, arterialise]
• assize 0
  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
• bestialise 0
  v 1: make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to [syn: bestialize, bestialise]
• breathalyse 0
  v 1: test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer [syn: breathalyze, breathalyse]
• canalise 0
  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]
• capitalise 0
  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]
• capsize 0
  v 1: overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!" [syn: capsize, turtle, turn turtle]
• caramelise 0
  v 1: be converted into caramel; "The sugar caramelized" [syn: caramelize, caramelise] 2: convert to caramel [syn: caramelize, caramelise]
• catalyse 0
  v 1: change by catalysis or cause to catalyze [syn: catalyze, catalyse]
• centralise 0
  v 1: make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food" [syn: centralize, centralise, concentrate] [ant: decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate]
• chastise 0
  v 1: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct]
• circumcise 0
  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"
• civilise 0
  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]
• clockwise 0
  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]
• coastwise 0
  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"
• comprise 0
  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]
• compromise 0
  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"
• contrariwise 0
  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]
• crosswise 0
  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
• decentralise 0
  v 1: make less central; "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized" [syn: decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise] [ant: centralise, centralize, concentrate]
• decimalise 0
  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]
• demise 0
  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
• demobilise 0
  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]
• demoralise 0
  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]
• denaturalise 0
  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]
• despise 0
  v 1: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn, disdain]
• devise 0
  n 1: a will disposing of real property 2: (law) a gift of real property by will v 1: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge] 2: arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office" [syn: organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up, machinate] 3: give by will, especially real property
• diabolise 0
  v 1: turn into a devil or make devilish; "Man devilized by war" [syn: devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise]
• dialyse 0
  v 1: separate by dialysis [syn: dialyse, dialyze]
• disguise 0
  n 1: an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories" [syn: disguise, camouflage] 2: any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity 3: the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance; "he is a master of disguise" [syn: disguise, camouflage] v 1: make unrecognizable; "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank" [syn: disguise, mask]
• disorganize 0
  v 1: remove the organization from [syn: disorganize, disorganise] [ant: organise, organize]
• edgewise 0
  adv 1: with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge; "he sawed the board edgeways"; "held it edgewise" [syn: edgeways, edgewise] 2: as if by an edge; barely; "I could not get a word in edgewise" [syn: edgewise, edgeways]
• endwise 0
  adv 1: on end or upright; "sticks leaning against the wall endways" [syn: endways, endwise] 2: in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise; "endways pressure" [syn: endways, endwise] 3: with the end forward or toward the observer; "houses built endways" [syn: endways, endwise, end on]
• equalise 0
  v 1: compensate; make the score equal [syn: equalize, equalise, get even] 2: make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors" [syn: equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate]
• evangelise 0
  v 1: preach the gospel (to) [syn: evangelize, evangelise] 2: convert to Christianity; "The missionaries evangelized the Pacific Islanders" [syn: evangelize, evangelise]
• excise 0
  n 1: a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) [syn: excise, excise tax] v 1: remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark" [syn: strike, scratch, expunge, excise] 2: levy an excise tax on 3: remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"
• eyes 0
  n 1: opinion or judgment; "in the eyes of the law"; "I was wrong in her eyes"
• federalise 0
  v 1: put under the control and authority of a federal government [syn: federalize, federalise] 2: enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union" [syn: federate, federalize, federalise] 3: unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war" [syn: federate, federalize, federalise]
• flies 0
  n 1: (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)
• focalise 0
  v 1: concentrate on a particular place or spot; "The infection has localized in the left eye" [syn: localize, localise, focalize, focalise] 2: bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions [syn: concenter, concentre, focalize, focalise, focus] 3: become focussed or come into focus; "The light focused" [syn: focus, focalize, focalise] [ant: blur, dim, slur] 4: put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie" [syn: focus, focalize, focalise, sharpen] [ant: blear, blur]
• formalise 0
  v 1: make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title" [syn: formalize, formalise] 2: declare or make legally valid [syn: validate, formalize, formalise] [ant: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash, void]
• fossilise 0
  v 1: convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone" [syn: fossilize, fossilise] 2: become mentally inflexible [syn: fossilize, fossilise]
• franchise 0
  n 1: an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place 2: a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area [syn: franchise, dealership] 3: a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) [syn: franchise, enfranchisement] v 1: grant a franchise to
• fries 0
  n 1: strips of potato fried in deep fat [syn: french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries, chips]
• generalise 0
  v 1: speak or write in generalities [syn: generalize, generalise] [ant: particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize, specify] 2: draw from specific cases for more general cases [syn: generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer] 3: cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors" [syn: popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise] 4: become systemic and spread throughout the body; "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system" [syn: generalize, generalise]
• guise 0
  n 1: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretense, pretence, pretext]
• hydrolyse 0
  v 1: undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water [syn: hydrolyze, hydrolyse]
• idealise 0
  v 1: consider or render as ideal; "She idealized her husband after his death" [syn: idealize, idealise] 2: form ideals; "Man has always idealized" [syn: idealize, idealise]
• illegalise 0
  v 1: declare illegal; outlaw; "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S." [syn: outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise] [ant: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize]
• immobilise 0
  v 1: hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital [syn: immobilize, immobilise] 2: to hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree" [syn: trap, pin, immobilize, immobilise] 3: make defenseless [syn: immobilize, immobilise] 4: convert (assets) into fixed capital [syn: immobilize, immobilise] 5: prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government" [syn: freeze, block, immobilize, immobilise] [ant: free, release, unblock, unfreeze] 6: cause to be unable to move; "The sudden storm immobilized the traffic" [syn: immobilize, immobilise]
• improvise 0
  v 1: perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding" [syn: improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise] 2: manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks" [syn: improvise, extemporize]
• incise 0
  v 1: make an incision into by carving or cutting
• labialise 0
  v 1: pronounce with rounded lips [syn: round, labialize, labialise]
• leastwise 0
  adv 1: if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial); "at least he survived"; "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary"; "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching" [syn: at least, leastways, leastwise, at any rate]
• legalise 0
  v 1: make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise] [ant: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw]
• lengthwise 0
  adv 1: in the direction of the length; "He cut the paper lengthwise" [syn: lengthways, lengthwise, longwise, longways, longitudinally] adj 1: running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; "the lengthwise dimension" [syn: lengthwise, lengthways] [ant: crosswise]
• liberalise 0
  v 1: become more liberal; "The laws liberalized after Prohibition" [syn: liberalize, liberalise] 2: make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules [syn: liberalize, liberalise]
• likewise 0
  adv 1: in like or similar manner; "He was similarly affected"; "some people have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil"- Samuel Johnson [syn: similarly, likewise] 2: in addition; "he has a Mercedes, too" [syn: besides, too, also, likewise, as well] 3: equally; "parents and teachers alike demanded reforms" [syn: alike, likewise]
• literalise 0
  v 1: make literal; "literalize metaphors" [syn: literalize, literalise] [ant: spiritualise, spiritualize]
• localise 0
  v 1: identify the location or place of; "We localized the source of the infection" [syn: place, localize, localise] 2: concentrate on a particular place or spot; "The infection has localized in the left eye" [syn: localize, localise, focalize, focalise] 3: restrict something to a particular area [syn: localize, localise] 4: locate; "The film is set in Africa" [syn: set, localize, localise, place]
• marginalize 0
  v 1: relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people; "We must not marginalize the poor in our society" [syn: marginalize, marginalise]
• materialise 0
  v 1: come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized" [syn: happen, materialize, materialise] [ant: dematerialise, dematerialize]
• memorialise 0
  v 1: address in a memorial; "The President memorialized the heroes of the battle" [syn: memorialize, memorialise] 2: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record]
• metabolise 0
  v 1: produce by metabolism [syn: metabolize, metabolise]
• mobilise 0
  v 1: call to arms; of military personnel [syn: call up, mobilize, mobilise, rally] [ant: demobilise, demobilize, inactivate] 2: get ready for war [syn: mobilize, mobilise] [ant: demob, demobilise, demobilize] 3: make ready for action or use; "marshal resources" [syn: mobilize, mobilise, marshal, summon] 4: cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" [syn: mobilize, mobilise, circulate]
• mongrelise 0
  v 1: cause to become a mongrel; "mongrelized dogs" [syn: mongrelize, mongrelise]
• monopolise 0
  v 1: have and control fully and exclusively; "He monopolizes the laser printer" [syn: monopolize, monopolise] 2: have or exploit a monopoly of; "OPEC wants to monopolize oil" [syn: monopolize, monopolise]
• moralise 0
  v 1: interpret the moral meaning of; "moralize a story" [syn: moralize, moralise] 2: speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements; "This man always sermonizes" [syn: sermonize, sermonise, preachify, moralize, moralise] 3: improve the morals of [syn: moralize, moralise]
• neutralise 0
  v 1: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" [syn: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in] 2: make incapable of military action [syn: neutralize, neutralise] 3: make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts" [syn: neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate] 4: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution" [syn: neutralize, neutralise]
• normalise 0
  v 1: become normal or return to its normal state; "Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon" [syn: normalize, normalise] 2: make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard; "normalize relations with China"; "normalize the temperature"; "normalize the spelling" [syn: normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise]
• novelise 0
  v 1: convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author novelized the historical event" [syn: novelize, novelise, fictionalize, fictionalise]
• nowise 0
  adv 1: in no manner; "they are nowise different" [syn: nowise, to no degree]
• otherwise 0
  adv 1: in other respects or ways; "he is otherwise normal"; "the funds are not otherwise available"; "an otherwise hopeless situation" 2: in another and different manner; "very soon you will know differently"; "she thought otherwise"; "there is no way out other than the fire escape"; [syn: differently, otherwise, other than] adj 1: other than as supposed or expected; "the outcome was otherwise"
• outsize 0
  adj 1: larger than normal for its kind [syn: outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized] n 1: an unusual garment size (especially one that is very large)
• oversize 0
  adj 1: larger than normal for its kind [syn: outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized]
• paralyse 0
  v 1: make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation" [syn: paralyze, paralyse] 2: cause to be paralyzed and immobile; "The poison paralyzed him"; "Fear paralyzed her" [syn: paralyze, paralyse]
• prise 0
  v 1: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prise, prize, lever, jimmy] 2: make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" [syn: pry, prise] 3: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, value, prize, prise] [ant: disesteem, disrespect]
• prize 0
  adj 1: of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" [syn: choice, prime(a), prize, quality, select] n 1: something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery; "the prize was a free trip to Europe" [syn: prize, award] 2: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 3: something given as a token of victory [syn: trophy, prize] v 1: hold dear; "I prize these old photographs" [syn: prize, value, treasure, appreciate] 2: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prise, prize, lever, jimmy] 3: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, value, prize, prise] [ant: disesteem, disrespect]
• realise 0
  v 1: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" [syn: gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in] 2: convert into cash; of goods and property [syn: realize, realise] 3: expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass [syn: realize, realise] 4: make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions" [syn: realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate] 5: be fully aware or cognizant of [syn: recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise] 6: perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" [syn: understand, realize, realise, see]
• realize 0
  v 1: be fully aware or cognizant of [syn: recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise] 2: perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" [syn: understand, realize, realise, see] 3: make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions" [syn: realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate] 4: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" [syn: gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in] 5: convert into cash; of goods and property [syn: realize, realise] 6: expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass [syn: realize, realise]
• remise 0
  n 1: an expensive or high-class hackney 2: a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles [syn: coach house, carriage house, remise] 3: (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte)
• reprise 0
  v 1: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate]
• revise 0
  n 1: the act of rewriting something [syn: revision, revisal, revise, rescript] v 1: make revisions in; "revise a thesis" 2: revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving; "We must retool the town's economy" [syn: retool, revise]
• rise 0
  n 1: a growth in strength or number or importance [ant: downfall, fall] 2: the act of changing location in an upward direction [syn: rise, ascent, ascension, ascending] 3: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall] 4: a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: rise, rising, ascent, ascension] [ant: fall] 5: the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase] 6: the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises [syn: upgrade, rise, rising slope] 7: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: lift, rise] 8: (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son" [syn: emanation, rise, procession] 9: an increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates" [syn: rise, boost, hike, cost increase] 10: increase in price or value; "the news caused a general advance on the stock market" [syn: advance, rise] v 1: 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] 2: increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year" [syn: rise, go up, climb] 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: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise, lift, rear] 5: come to the surface [syn: surface, come up, rise up, rise] 6: 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] 7: move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great [syn: ascend, move up, rise] 8: go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered" [syn: wax, mount, climb, rise] [ant: wane] 9: become more extreme; "The tension heightened" [syn: heighten, rise] 10: 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] 11: rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list" [syn: rise, jump, climb up] 12: become heartened or elated; "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news" 13: exert oneself to meet a challenge; "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion" 14: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance [syn: rebel, arise, rise, rise up] 15: increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room" [syn: rise, prove] 16: come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: rise, come up, uprise, ascend] [ant: go down, go under, set] 17: return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" [syn: resurrect, rise, uprise]
• serialise 0
  v 1: arrange serially; "Serialize the numbers" [syn: serialize, serialise]
• size 0
  adj 1: (used in combination) sized; "the economy-size package"; "average-size house" n 1: the physical magnitude of something (how big it is); "a wolf is about the size of a large dog" 2: the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing); "he wears a size 13 shoe" 3: any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics; "size gives body to a fabric" [syn: size, sizing] 4: the actual state of affairs; "that's the size of the situation"; "she hates me, that's about the size of it" [syn: size, size of it] 5: a large magnitude; "he blanched when he saw the size of the bill"; "the only city of any size in that area" v 1: cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance) 2: sort according to size 3: make to a size; bring to a suitable size
• socialise 0
  v 1: take part in social activities; interact with others; "He never socializes with his colleagues"; "The old man hates to socialize" [syn: socialize, socialise] 2: train for a social environment; "The children must be properly socialized" [syn: socialize, socialise] 3: prepare for social life; "Children have to be socialized in school" [syn: socialize, socialise] 4: make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies; "Health care should be socialized!" [syn: socialize, socialise]
• specialize 0
  v 1: become more focus on an area of activity or field of study; "She specializes in Near Eastern history" [syn: specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down] [ant: branch out, broaden, diversify] 2: be specific about; "Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?" [syn: specify, particularize, particularise, specialize, specialise] [ant: generalise, generalize] 3: suit to a special purpose; "specialize one's research"; "this kind of beak has become specialized in certain Galapagos finches" [syn: specialize, specialise] 4: devote oneself to a special area of work; "She specializes in honey bees"; "This baker specializes in French bread" [syn: specialize, specialise] 5: evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment [syn: speciate, differentiate, specialize, specialise]
• stabilise 0
  v 1: support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace; "brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel" [syn: brace, steady, stabilize, stabilise] 2: become stable or more stable; "The economy stabilized" [syn: stabilize, stabilise] [ant: destabilise, destabilize] 3: make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium; "The drug stabilized her blood pressure"; "stabilize prices" [syn: stabilize, stabilise] [ant: destabilise, destabilize]
• sterilise 0
  v 1: make free from bacteria [syn: sterilize, sterilise] 2: make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" [syn: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix]
• sunrise 0
  adj 1: of an industry or technology; new and developing; "high- technology sunrise industries" n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset] 2: atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily appearance of the sun 3: the daily event of the sun rising above the horizon
• surmise 0
  n 1: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis] v 1: infer from incomplete evidence 2: imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" [syn: suspect, surmise]

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