Words that rhyme with utilise

  • allies
    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
    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]
  • assize
    n 1: the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale 2: an ancient writ issued by a court of assize to the sheriff for the recovery of property
  • brutalise
    v 1: treat brutally [syn: brutalize, brutalise] 2: make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him" [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise] 3: become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise]
  • brutalize
    v 1: treat brutally [syn: brutalize, brutalise] 2: make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him" [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise] 3: become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise]
  • fertilize
    v 1: provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" [syn: fertilize, fertilise, feed] 2: make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination" [syn: fertilize, fecundate, fertilise] 3: introduce semen into (a female) [syn: inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise]
  • feudalize
    v 1: bring (a country or people) under feudalism
  • idolize
    v 1: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles" [syn: idolize, idolise, worship, hero-worship, revere]
  • scandalize
    v 1: strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends" [syn: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage]
  • subtilize
    v 1: mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words 2: make more subtle or refined [syn: rarefy, sublimate, subtilize] 3: make (senses) more keen [syn: subtilize, subtilise]
  • utilize
    v 1: put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" [syn: use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ] 2: convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust)
  • vandalize
    v 1: destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism; "vandalize the park" [syn: vandalize, vandalise]
  • vitalize
    v 1: give life to; "The eggs are vitalized" [syn: vitalize, vitalise] 2: make more lively or vigorous; "The treatment at the spa vitalized the old man" [syn: vitalize, vitalise] [ant: devitalise, devitalize]
  • capitalize
    v 1: draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover" [syn: capitalize, capitalise, take advantage] 2: supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders [syn: capitalize, capitalise] 3: write in capital letters [syn: capitalize, capitalise] 4: compute the present value of a business or an income [syn: capitalize, capitalise] 5: consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses [syn: capitalize, capitalise] 6: convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital [syn: capitalize, capitalise]
  • devitalize
    v 1: sap of life or energy; "The recession devitalized the economy" [syn: devitalize, devitalise] [ant: vitalise, vitalize]
  • digitalize
    v 1: put into digital form, as for use in a computer; "he bought a device to digitize the data" [syn: digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise] 2: administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects
  • hospitalize
    v 1: admit into a hospital; "Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high" [syn: hospitalize, hospitalise]
  • immortalize
    v 1: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record] 2: make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer" [syn: immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise]
  • totalize
    v 1: make into a total; "Can we totalize these different ideas into one philosophy?" [syn: totalize, totalise]
  • orientalize
    v 1: make oriental in character; "orientalize your garden" [syn: orientalize, orientalise] [ant: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize]
  • revitalize
    v 1: restore strength; "This food revitalized the patient" [syn: regenerate, revitalize] 2: give new life or vigor to [syn: revitalize, revitalise]
  • applies
  • ayes
  • belies
  • buys
  • ais
  • dentalize
  • glottalize
  • recapitalize

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