Words that rhyme with pauperise

  • advise
    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]
  • apprise
    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
    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
    v 1: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct]
  • comprise
    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
    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
    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
    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
    n 1: opinion or judgment; "in the eyes of the law"; "I was wrong in her eyes"
  • flies
    n 1: (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)
  • fries
    n 1: strips of potato fried in deep fat [syn: french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries, chips]
  • incise
    v 1: make an incision into by carving or cutting
  • surprise
    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
    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]
  • baptize
    v 1: administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized" [syn: baptize, baptise, christen]
  • authorize
    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]
  • barbarize
    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]
  • burglarize
    v 1: commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling [syn: burglarize, burglarise, burgle, heist]
  • cauterize
    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]
  • categorize
    v 1: place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize" [syn: categorize, categorise]
  • catheterize
    v 1: insert a catheter into (a body part); "catheterize the patient's bladder" [syn: catheterize, catheterise]
  • characterize
    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]
  • circularize
    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
  • computerize
    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]
  • containerize
    v 1: package in a container; "The cargo was containerized for safe and efficient shipping" [syn: containerize, containerise]
  • deodorize
    v 1: eliminate the odor from; "This stick will deodorize your armpits" [syn: deodorize, deodorise, deodourise] [ant: odorize, odourise, scent]
  • demilitarize
    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]
  • ayes
  • cries
  • implies
  • spies
  • ais

See also pauperise definition