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apprise
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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]
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arise
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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]
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comprise
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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]
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apprize
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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]
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glamorize
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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]
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tenderize
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v 1: make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or
applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" [syn: tender,
tenderize, tenderise]
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terrorize
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v 1: coerce by violence or with threats [syn: terrorize,
terrorise]
2: fill with terror; frighten greatly [syn: terrify,
terrorize, terrorise]
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theorize
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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"
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vaporize
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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]
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vulgarize
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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]
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winterize
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v 1: prepare for winter; "winterize cars"; "winterize your
houses" [syn: winterize, winterise] [ant: summerise,
summerize]
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allegorize
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v 1: interpret as an allegory [syn: allegorize, allegorise]
2: make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time"
[syn: allegorize, allegorise]
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categorize
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v 1: place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early
on to categorize" [syn: categorize, categorise]
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catheterize
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v 1: insert a catheter into (a body part); "catheterize the
patient's bladder" [syn: catheterize, catheterise]
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characterize
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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]
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circularize
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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
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computerize
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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]
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containerize
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v 1: package in a container; "The cargo was containerized for
safe and efficient shipping" [syn: containerize,
containerise]
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contemporize
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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]
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deodorize
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v 1: eliminate the odor from; "This stick will deodorize your
armpits" [syn: deodorize, deodorise, deodourise]
[ant: odorize, odourise, scent]
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depolarize
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v 1: eliminate the polarization of [syn: depolarize,
depolarise]
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depressurize
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v 1: decrease the pressure of; "depressurize the cabin in the
air plane" [syn: depressurize, depressurise,
decompress] [ant: pressurise, pressurize]
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demilitarize
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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]
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ayes
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texturize
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valorize
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velarize
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epimerize
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denuclearize
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