Words that rhyme with formalize

• 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
• analyse 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: break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market" [syn: analyze, analyse] 3: 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] 4: subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" [syn: analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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)
• 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
• marginalize 0
  v 1: relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people; "We must not marginalize the poor in our society" [syn: marginalize, marginalise]
• 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]
• psychoanalyse 0
  v 1: subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" [syn: analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• finalize 0
  v 1: make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal" [syn: finalize, finalise, settle, nail down]
• penalize 0
  v 1: impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again" [syn: punish, penalize, penalise]
• communalize 0
  v 1: make something the property of the commune or community [syn: communalize, communalise]
• fictionalize 0
  v 1: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize, fictionalise, retell] 2: convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author novelized the historical event" [syn: novelize, novelise, fictionalize, fictionalise]
• internalize 0
  v 1: incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal; "internalize a belief" [syn: internalize, internalise, interiorize, interiorise]
• nationalize 0
  v 1: put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks" [syn: nationalize, nationalise] [ant: denationalise, denationalize] 2: make national in character or scope; "His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press" [syn: nationalize, nationalise]
• rationalize 0
  v 1: defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success" [syn: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise] 2: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" [syn: cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise] 3: structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results; "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits" [syn: rationalize, rationalise] 4: think rationally; employ logic or reason; "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize" [syn: rationalize, rationalise] 5: remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized" [syn: rationalize, rationalise]
• sectionalize 0
  v 1: divide into sections, especially into geographic sections; "sectionalize a country" [syn: sectionalize, sectionalise]
• caramelize 0
  v 1: be converted into caramel; "The sugar caramelized" [syn: caramelize, caramelise] 2: convert to caramel [syn: caramelize, caramelise]
• criminalize 0
  v 1: treat as a criminal 2: declare illegal; outlaw; "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S." [syn: outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise] [ant: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize]
• decimalize 0
  v 1: change from fractions to decimals; "Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000" [syn: decimalize, decimalise] 2: change to the decimal system; "The country decimalized the currency in 1975" [syn: decimalize, decimalise]
• personalize 0
  v 1: make personal or more personal; "personalized service" [syn: personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise] [ant: depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify]
• canalize 0
  v 1: provide (a city) with a canal [syn: canal, canalize, canalise] 2: direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad audience" [syn: channel, canalize, canalise]
• ayes 0
• cries 0
• dies 0
• guys 0
• highs 0
• implies 0
• lies 0
• pies 0
• reanalyse 0
• supplies 0
• ties 0
• tries 0
• ais 0
• journalize 0
• vernalize 0
• nominalize 0
• regionalize 0

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