Words that rhyme with misprize

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

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]

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]

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]

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: a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise" [syn: enterprise, endeavor, endeavour] 2: an organization created for business ventures; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader" 3: readiness to embark on bold new ventures [syn: enterprise, enterprisingness, initiative, go-ahead]

n 1: opinion or judgment; "in the eyes of the law"; "I was wrong in her eyes"

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

v 1: attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks" [syn: magnetize, mesmerize, mesmerise, magnetise, bewitch, spellbind] 2: induce hypnosis in [syn: hypnotize, hypnotise, mesmerize, mesmerise]

v 1: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate]

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

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

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: 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: 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]

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: ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the church" 3: rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!" [syn: bristle, uprise, stand up] 4: 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] 5: 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] 6: 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] 7: return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" [syn: resurrect, rise, uprise] 8: 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]

v 1: speak or write in aphorisms [syn: aphorize, aphorise]

v 1: grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography" [syn: authorize, authorise, pass, clear] 2: give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers" [syn: empower, authorise, authorize]

v 1: become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language [syn: barbarize, barbarise] 2: make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man" [syn: barbarize, barbarise]

v 1: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" [syn: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten]

v 1: commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling [syn: burglarize, burglarise, burgle, heist]

v 1: burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart" [syn: cauterize, cauterise, burn] 2: make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals [syn: callous, cauterize, cauterise]

v 1: form a scar, after an injury; "the skin will cicatrize and it will heal soon" [syn: cicatrize, cicatrise]

v 1: add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" [syn: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in] [ant: discolor]

v 1: anesthetize with ether [syn: etherize, etherise]

v 1: interpret romantically; "Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!" [syn: romanticize, romanticise, glamorize, glamourise] 2: make glamorous and attractive; "This new wallpaper really glamorizes the living room!" [syn: glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise]

v 1: torture and torment like a martyr [syn: martyr, martyrize, martyrise]

v 1: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con, learn]

v 1: treat to strengthen and improve the luster; "mercerize cotton" [syn: mercerize, mercerise]

v 1: make (more) humid; "We have a machine that humidifies the air in the house" [syn: humidify, moisturize, moisturise] [ant: dehumidify]

v 1: equip with a motor vehicle; "The police around here are not motorized and patrol the streets on horseback" 2: equip with a motor; "motorized scooters are now the rage" 3: equip with armed and armored motor vehicles; "mechanize armies" [syn: mechanize, mechanise, motorize, motorise]

v 1: authenticate as a notary; "We had to have the signature notarized" [syn: notarize, notarise]

v 1: heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms; "pasteurize milk" [syn: pasteurize, pasteurise]

v 1: reduce to beggary [syn: beggar, pauperize, pauperise]

v 1: take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property [syn: plagiarize, plagiarise, lift]

v 1: cause to vibrate in a definite pattern; "polarize light waves" [syn: polarize, polarise] 2: cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions [syn: polarize, polarise] 3: become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation [syn: polarize, polarise]

v 1: increase the pressure on a gas or liquid [syn: supercharge, pressurize, pressurise] 2: maintain a certain pressure; "the airplane cabin is pressurized"; "pressurize a space suit" [syn: pressurize, pressurise] 3: increase the pressure in or of; "The captain will pressurize the cabin for the passengers' comfort" [syn: pressurize, pressurise] [ant: decompress, depressurise, depressurize]

v 1: make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust; "pulverize the grains" [syn: powderize, powderise, powder, pulverize, pulverise] 2: destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand" [syn: demolish, pulverize, pulverise] 3: become powder or dust; "When it was blown up, the building powderized" [syn: powderize, pulverize, pulverise, powderise]

v 1: coat or impregnate with rubber; "rubberize fabric for rain coats" [syn: rubberize, rubberise, rubber]

v 1: ridicule with satire; "The writer satirized the politician's proposal" [syn: satirize, satirise, lampoon]

v 1: make slender or appear to be slender; "slenderizing skirts" [syn: slenderize, slenderise] 2: take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down] [ant: gain, put on]

v 1: reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it [syn: solarize, solarise] 2: become overexposed; "The film solarized" [syn: solarize, solarise] 3: overexpose to sunlight; "be careful not to solarize the photographic film" [syn: solarize, solarise] 4: expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun; "insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"; "These herbs suffer when sunned" [syn: sun, insolate, solarize, solarise]

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]

v 1: make symmetric; "symmetrized waves" [syn: symmetrize, symmetrise]

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]

v 1: make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" [syn: tender, tenderize, tenderise]

v 1: coerce by violence or with threats [syn: terrorize, terrorise] 2: fill with terror; frighten greatly [syn: terrify, terrorize, terrorise]

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"

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]

v 1: 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] 2: debase and make vulgar; "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage" [syn: vulgarise, vulgarize] 3: act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize" [syn: vulgarize, vulgarise]

v 1: prepare for winter; "winterize cars"; "winterize your houses" [syn: winterize, winterise] [ant: summerise, summerize]

v 1: interpret as an allegory [syn: allegorize, allegorise] 2: make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time" [syn: allegorize, allegorise]

v 1: place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize" [syn: categorize, categorise]

v 1: insert a catheter into (a body part); "catheterize the patient's bladder" [syn: catheterize, catheterise]

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]

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

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]

v 1: package in a container; "The cargo was containerized for safe and efficient shipping" [syn: containerize, containerise]

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]

v 1: eliminate the odor from; "This stick will deodorize your armpits" [syn: deodorize, deodorise, deodourise] [ant: odorize, odourise, scent]

v 1: eliminate the polarization of [syn: depolarize, depolarise]

v 1: decrease the pressure of; "depressurize the cabin in the air plane" [syn: depressurize, depressurise, decompress] [ant: pressurise, pressurize]

v 1: manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks" [syn: improvise, extemporize] 2: perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding" [syn: improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise]

v 1: make familiar or conversant with; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings" [syn: familiarize, familiarise, acquaint]

v 1: express as a formula [syn: formularize, formularise]

v 1: cause to change into an isomer [syn: isomerize, isomerise] 2: change into an isomer [syn: isomerize, isomerise]

v 1: make linear or get into a linear form; "a catalyst linearizes polyethylene" [syn: linearize, linearise]

v 1: lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force; "militarize Germany again after the war" [syn: militarize, militarise] [ant: demilitarise, demilitarize] 2: adopt for military use; "militarize the Civil Service" [syn: militarize, militarise]

v 1: design or construct on a smaller scale [syn: miniaturize, miniaturise]

v 1: cause (a compound) to polymerize [syn: polymerize, polymerise] 2: undergo polymerization [syn: polymerize, polymerise]

v 1: 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] 2: make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books" [syn: popularize, popularise]

v 1: distinguish as singular [syn: singularize, singularise]

v 1: polymerize together; "the two substances copolymerized" [syn: copolymerize, copolymerise]

v 1: do away with the military organization and potential of [syn: demilitarize, demilitarise] [ant: militarise, militarize] 2: remove offensive capability from [syn: disarm, demilitarize, demilitarise] [ant: arm, build up, fortify, gird]

v 1: bring outside the body for surgery, of organs [syn: exteriorize, bring outside] 2: make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts" [syn: exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify]