Words that rhyme with centralise

• 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
• 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]
• 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
• chastise 0
  v 1: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct]
• 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]
• decentralise 0
  v 1: make less central; "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized" [syn: decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise] [ant: centralise, centralize, concentrate]
• 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]
• centralize 0
  v 1: make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food" [syn: centralize, centralise, concentrate] [ant: decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate]
• federalize 0
  v 1: unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war" [syn: federate, federalize, federalise] 2: put under the control and authority of a federal government [syn: federalize, federalise] 3: enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union" [syn: federate, federalize, federalise]
• hydrolyze 0
  v 1: undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water [syn: hydrolyze, hydrolyse]
• liberalize 0
  v 1: make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules [syn: liberalize, liberalise] 2: become more liberal; "The laws liberalized after Prohibition" [syn: liberalize, liberalise]
• naturalize 0
  v 1: make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" [syn: naturalize, naturalise] [ant: denaturalise, denaturalize] 2: explain with reference to nature 3: adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" [syn: naturalize, naturalise] 4: make more natural or lifelike [syn: naturalize, naturalise] [ant: denaturalise, denaturalize] 5: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame]
• neutralize 0
  v 1: make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; "The treaty neutralized the small republic" 2: 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] 3: oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues" [syn: counteract, countervail, neutralize, counterbalance] 4: 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] 5: make incapable of military action [syn: neutralize, neutralise] 6: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution" [syn: neutralize, neutralise]
• pluralize 0
  v 1: mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural; "How do speakers pluralize nouns in Japanese?" [syn: pluralize, pluralise]
• decentralize 0
  v 1: make less central; "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized" [syn: decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise] [ant: centralise, centralize, concentrate]
• demoralize 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] 3: confuse or put into disorder; "the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office"
• generalize 0
  v 1: draw from specific cases for more general cases [syn: generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer] 2: speak or write in generalities [syn: generalize, generalise] [ant: particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize, specify] 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]
• literalize 0
  v 1: make literal; "literalize metaphors" [syn: literalize, literalise] [ant: spiritualise, spiritualize]
• mineralize 0
  v 1: convert into a mineral substance 2: transform (a metal) into an ore
• demineralize 0
  v 1: remove the minerals or salts from; "demineralize water" [syn: demineralize, demineralise]
• applies 0
• ayes 0
• belies 0
• buys 0
• complies 0
• cries 0
• ais 0
• ruralize 0
• gutturalize 0

See also centralise definition