Words that rhyme with assize

• 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]
• allies 0
  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
• amortise 0
  v 1: liquidate gradually [syn: amortize, amortise]
• anglicise 0
  v 1: make English in appearance; "She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London" [syn: anglicise, anglicize]
• apotheosise 0
  v 1: deify or glorify [syn: apotheosize, apotheosise, apotheose]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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"
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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]
• emphasise 0
  v 1: give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture emphasized her words" [syn: underscore, underline, emphasize, emphasise] 2: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate]
• 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]
• 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"
• exercise 0
  n 1: the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit; "the doctor recommended regular exercise"; "he did some exercising"; "the physical exertion required by his work kept him fit" [syn: exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout] 2: the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" [syn: use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise] 3: systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect" [syn: exercise, practice, drill, practice session, recitation] 4: a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding; "you must work the examples at the end of each chapter in the textbook" [syn: exercise, example] 5: (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches; "academic exercises" v 1: put to use; "exert one's power or influence" [syn: exert, exercise] 2: carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; "practice law" [syn: practice, practise, exercise, do] 3: give a workout to; "Some parents exercise their infants"; "My personal trainer works me hard"; "work one's muscles"; "this puzzle will exercise your mind" [syn: exercise, work, work out] 4: do physical exercise; "She works out in the gym every day" [syn: exercise, work out] 5: learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales" [syn: drill, exercise, practice, practise]
• eyes 0
  n 1: opinion or judgment; "in the eyes of the law"; "I was wrong in her eyes"
• flies 0
  n 1: (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)
• 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]
• guise 0
  n 1: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretense, pretence, pretext]
• incise 0
  v 1: make an incision into by carving or cutting
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• nowise 0
  adv 1: in no manner; "they are nowise different" [syn: nowise, to no degree]
• ostracise 0
  v 1: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball] 2: avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me" [syn: ostracize, ostracise]
• 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]
• plasticize 0
  v 1: become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added [syn: plasticize, plasticise] 2: make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer; "plasticized PVC" [syn: plasticize, plasticise]
• 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]
• 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]
• resize 0
  v 1: change the size of; make the size more appropriate
• 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]
• 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
• 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]
• surprise 0
  n 1: the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you 2: a sudden unexpected event 3: the act of surprising someone [syn: surprise, surprisal] v 1: cause to be surprised; "The news really surprised me" 2: come upon or take unawares; "She surprised the couple"; "He surprised an interesting scene" 3: attack by storm; attack suddenly [syn: storm, surprise]
• undersize 0
  adj 1: smaller than normal for its kind [syn: undersize, undersized]
• unwise 0
  adj 1: showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; "an unwise investor is soon impoverished" 2: not appropriate to the purpose [syn: inexpedient, unwise]
• wise 0
  adj 1: having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment" [ant: foolish] 2: marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision" [syn: judicious, wise, heady] 3: evidencing the possession of inside information [syn: knowing, wise(p), wise to(p)] 4: improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!" [syn: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise] n 1: a way of doing or being; "in no wise"; "in this wise" 2: United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949) [syn: Wise, Stephen Samuel Wise] 3: United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900) [syn: Wise, Isaac Mayer Wise]
• baptize 0
  v 1: administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized" [syn: baptize, baptise, christen]
• actualize 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]
• digitize 0
  v 1: put into digital form, as for use in a computer; "he bought a device to digitize the data" [syn: digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise]
• analyze 0
  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: 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] 3: break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market" [syn: analyze, analyse] 4: subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" [syn: analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse]
• apprize 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]
• brutalize 0
  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]
• catalyze 0
  v 1: change by catalysis or cause to catalyze [syn: catalyze, catalyse]
• channelize 0
  v 1: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise] 2: make a channel for; provide with a channel; "channelize the country for better transportation" [syn: channelize, channelise] 3: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise] 4: cause to form a channel; "channelize a stream" [syn: channelize, channelise]
• crystallize 0
  v 1: cause to take on a definite and clear shape; "He tried to crystallize his thoughts" [syn: crystallize, crystallise, crystalise, crystalize] 2: 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] 3: cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form; "crystallize minerals" [syn: crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise] 4: assume crystalline form; become crystallized [syn: crystallize, crystalize, crystalise, effloresce]
• downsize 0
  v 1: dismiss from work; "three secretaries were downsized during the financial crisis" 2: make in a smaller size; "the car makers downsized the SUVs when fuel became very expensive" 3: reduce in size or number; "the company downsized its research staff"
• levis 0
  n 1: a popular brand of jeans [syn: Levi's, levis]
• streetwise 0
  adj 1: having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment [syn: streetwise, street smart, with-it]
• stylize 0
  v 1: represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head" [syn: stylize, stylise, conventionalize]
• advertize 0
  v 1: 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] 2: call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS" [syn: advertise, publicize, advertize, publicise]
• aggrandize 0
  v 1: add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise]
• agonize 0
  v 1: cause to agonize [syn: agonize, agonise] 2: suffer agony or anguish [syn: agonize, agonise]
• alkalize 0
  v 1: turn basic and less acidic; "the solution alkalized" [syn: alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify] [ant: acetify, acidify]
• amortize 0
  v 1: liquidate gradually [syn: amortize, amortise]
• anglicize 0
  v 1: make English in appearance; "She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London" [syn: anglicise, anglicize]
• anodize 0
  v 1: coat a metal with an oxide coat [syn: anodize, anodise]
• atomize 0
  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]
• authorize 0
  v 1: grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography" [syn: authorize, authorise, pass, clear] 2: give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers" [syn: empower, authorise, authorize]
• barbarize 0
  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]
• bastardize 0
  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]
• burglarize 0
  v 1: commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling [syn: burglarize, burglarise, burgle, heist]
• canonize 0
  v 1: 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] 2: treat as a sacred person; "He canonizes women" [syn: canonize, canonise]
• capitalize 0
  v 1: draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover" [syn: capitalize, capitalise, take advantage] 2: 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] 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]
• capsulize 0
  v 1: enclose in a capsule [syn: capsule, capsulate, capsulize, capsulise] 2: put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news" [syn: encapsulate, capsule, capsulize, capsulise]
• carbonize 0
  v 1: unite with carbon; "carburize metal" [syn: carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise] 2: turn into carbon, as by burning; "carbonize coal" [syn: carbonize, carbonise]
• cauterize 0
  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]
• centralize 0
  v 1: make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food" [syn: centralize, centralise, concentrate] [ant: decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate]
• christianize 0
  v 1: adapt in the name of Christianity; "some people want to Christianize ancient pagan sites" 2: convert to Christianity; "missionaries have tried to Christianize native people all over the world" [syn: Christianize, Christianise]
• civilize 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]
• classicize 0
  v 1: make classic or classical [syn: classicize, classicise]
• colonize 0
  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]
• communalize 0
  v 1: make something the property of the commune or community [syn: communalize, communalise]
• criticize 0
  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]
• customize 0
  v 1: make to specifications; "I had this desk custom-made for me" [syn: custom-make, customize, customise, tailor- make] 2: make according to requirements; "customize a car" [syn: customize, customise]
• deputize 0
  v 1: act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold" [syn: substitute, deputize, deputise, step in] 2: appoint as a substitute [syn: depute, deputize, deputise]
• devitalize 0
  v 1: sap of life or energy; "The recession devitalized the economy" [syn: devitalize, devitalise] [ant: vitalise, vitalize]
• digitalize 0
  v 1: put into digital form, as for use in a computer; "he bought a device to digitize the data" [syn: digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise] 2: administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects
• dramatize 0
  v 1: put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay" [syn: dramatize, dramatise, adopt] 2: represent something in a dramatic manner; "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth" [syn: dramatize, dramatise] 3: add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise]
• emphasize 0
  v 1: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate] 2: give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture emphasized her words" [syn: underscore, underline, emphasize, emphasise]
• exorcize 0
  v 1: expel through adjuration or prayers; "exorcise evil spirits" [syn: exorcise, exorcize]
• fantasize 0
  v 1: indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company" [syn: fantasy, fantasize, fantasise] 2: portray in the mind; "he is fantasizing the ideal wife" [syn: fantasize, fantasise]

See also assize definition