Words that rhyme with epitomize

  • demise
    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
  • premise
    n 1: a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play" [syn: premise, premiss, assumption] v 1: set forth beforehand, often as an explanation; "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand" 2: furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution" [syn: precede, preface, premise, introduce] 3: take something as preexisting and given [syn: premise, premiss]
  • remise
    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)
  • surmise
    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]
  • atomize
    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]
  • customize
    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]
  • itemize
    v 1: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug" [syn: enumerate, recite, itemize, itemise] 2: place on a list of items; "itemize one's tax deductions" [syn: itemize, itemise]
  • optimize
    v 1: make optimal; get the most out of; use best; "optimize your resources" [syn: optimize, optimise] 2: modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost; "optimize a computer program" [syn: optimize, optimise] 3: act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world [syn: optimize, optimise]
  • systemize
    v 1: arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge" [syn: systematize, systematise, systemize, systemise]
  • victimize
    v 1: make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man" [syn: victimize, victimise] 2: punish unjustly [syn: victimize, victimise] 3: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
  • legitimize
    v 1: make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise] [ant: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw]
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