Words that rhyme with dentalize

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

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: 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: 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]

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]

n 1: (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

n 1: strips of potato fried in deep fat [syn: french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries, chips]

n 1: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretense, pretence, pretext]

v 1: make an incision into by carving or cutting

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

v 1: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]

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: 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]

v 1: provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" [syn: fertilize, fertilise, feed] 2: make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination" [syn: fertilize, fecundate, fertilise] 3: introduce semen into (a female) [syn: inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise]

v 1: bring (a country or people) under feudalism

v 1: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles" [syn: idolize, idolise, worship, hero-worship, revere]

v 1: strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends" [syn: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage]

v 1: mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words 2: make more subtle or refined [syn: rarefy, sublimate, subtilize] 3: make (senses) more keen [syn: subtilize, subtilise]

v 1: put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" [syn: use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ] 2: convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust)

v 1: destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism; "vandalize the park" [syn: vandalize, vandalise]

v 1: give life to; "The eggs are vitalized" [syn: vitalize, vitalise] 2: make more lively or vigorous; "The treatment at the spa vitalized the old man" [syn: vitalize, vitalise] [ant: devitalise, devitalize]

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]

v 1: sap of life or energy; "The recession devitalized the economy" [syn: devitalize, devitalise] [ant: vitalise, vitalize]

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

v 1: admit into a hospital; "Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high" [syn: hospitalize, hospitalise]

v 1: 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] 2: make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer" [syn: immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise]

v 1: make into a total; "Can we totalize these different ideas into one philosophy?" [syn: totalize, totalise]

v 1: make oriental in character; "orientalize your garden" [syn: orientalize, orientalise] [ant: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize]

v 1: restore strength; "This food revitalized the patient" [syn: regenerate, revitalize] 2: give new life or vigor to [syn: revitalize, revitalise]