Words that rhyme with burglarise

  • apprise
    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
    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]
  • comprise
    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]
  • sunrise
    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
  • surprise
    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]
  • apprize
    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]
  • burglarize
    v 1: commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling [syn: burglarize, burglarise, burgle, heist]
  • summarize
    v 1: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" [syn: sum up, summarize, summarise, resume] 2: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum, sum up]
  • symmetrize
    v 1: make symmetric; "symmetrized waves" [syn: symmetrize, symmetrise]
  • temporize
    v 1: draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; "The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote" [syn: temporize, temporise]
  • tenderize
    v 1: make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" [syn: tender, tenderize, tenderise]
  • terrorize
    v 1: coerce by violence or with threats [syn: terrorize, terrorise] 2: fill with terror; frighten greatly [syn: terrify, terrorize, terrorise]
  • theorize
    v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose] 2: construct a theory about; "Galileo theorized the motion of the stars" 3: form or construct theories; "he thinks and theorizes all day"
  • vaporize
    v 1: kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens" [syn: zap, vaporize] 2: turn into gas; "The substance gasified" [syn: gasify, vaporize, vaporise, aerify] 3: lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue; "evaporate milk" [syn: evaporate, vaporize, vaporise] 4: decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" [syn: vanish, fly, vaporize]
  • winterize
    v 1: prepare for winter; "winterize cars"; "winterize your houses" [syn: winterize, winterise] [ant: summerise, summerize]
  • allegorize
    v 1: interpret as an allegory [syn: allegorize, allegorise] 2: make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time" [syn: allegorize, allegorise]
  • categorize
    v 1: place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize" [syn: categorize, categorise]
  • catheterize
    v 1: insert a catheter into (a body part); "catheterize the patient's bladder" [syn: catheterize, catheterise]
  • characterize
    v 1: 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] 2: be characteristic of; "What characterizes a Venetian painting?" [syn: characterize, characterise]
  • circularize
    v 1: canvass by distributing letters [syn: circularize, circularise] 2: canvass by using a questionnaire 3: distribute circulars to [syn: circularize, circularise] 4: 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] 5: make circular
  • computerize
    v 1: provide with computers; "Our office is fully computerized now" [syn: computerize, computerise] 2: store in a computer; "computerized dictionary" [syn: computerize, computerise] 3: control a function, process, or creation by a computer; "They computerized the car industry"; "we live in a cybernated age"; "cybernate a factory" [syn: cybernate, computerize, computerise]
  • containerize
    v 1: package in a container; "The cargo was containerized for safe and efficient shipping" [syn: containerize, containerise]
  • contemporize
    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]
  • ayes
  • moonrise
  • ais
  • sulphurize
  • texturize
  • valorize
  • velarize

See also burglarise definition