Words that rhyme with specialize

• 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
• 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]
• breathalyse 0
  v 1: test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer [syn: breathalyze, breathalyse]
• 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
• 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]
• 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]
• civilize 0
  v 1: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise] 2: raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized" [syn: civilize, civilise]
• fossilize 0
  v 1: convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone" [syn: fossilize, fossilise] 2: become mentally inflexible [syn: fossilize, fossilise]
• nasalize 0
  v 1: speak nasally or through the nose; "In this part of the country, people tend to nasalize" [syn: nasalize, nasalise] 2: pronounce with a lowered velum; "She nasalizes all her vowels" [syn: nasalize, nasalise]
• socialize 0
  v 1: take part in social activities; interact with others; "He never socializes with his colleagues"; "The old man hates to socialize" [syn: socialize, socialise] 2: train for a social environment; "The children must be properly socialized" [syn: socialize, socialise] 3: prepare for social life; "Children have to be socialized in school" [syn: socialize, socialise] 4: make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies; "Health care should be socialized!" [syn: socialize, socialise]
• evangelize 0
  v 1: preach the gospel (to) [syn: evangelize, evangelise] 2: convert to Christianity; "The missionaries evangelized the Pacific Islanders" [syn: evangelize, evangelise]
• lyophilize 0
  v 1: to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum [syn: lyophilize, lyophilise]
• sensualize 0
  v 1: represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture [syn: sensualize, carnalize] 2: ascribe to an origin in sensation [syn: sensualize, carnalize] 3: debase through carnal gratification [syn: sensualize, sensualise, carnalize, carnalise]
• universalize 0
  v 1: make universal; "This author's stories universalize old themes" [syn: universalize, universalise]
• novelize 0
  v 1: convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author novelized the historical event" [syn: novelize, novelise, fictionalize, fictionalise]
• initialize 0
  v 1: assign an initial value to a computer program [syn: initialize, initialise] 2: divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!" [syn: format, initialize, initialise]
• ayes 0
• cries 0
• dies 0
• guys 0
• highs 0
• implies 0
• lies 0
• pies 0
• supplies 0
• ties 0
• tries 0
• ais 0
• dieselize 0
• podzolize 0

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