Words that rhyme with valentines

n 1: a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa [syn: clementine, clementine tree] 2: a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds

v 1: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]

v 1: consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" [syn: analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas] 2: make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound" [syn: analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart] [ant: synthesise, synthesize] 3: break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market" [syn: analyze, analyse] 4: subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" [syn: analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse]

v 1: change by catalysis or cause to catalyze [syn: catalyze, catalyse]

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]

v 1: destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism; "vandalize the park" [syn: vandalize, vandalise]

v 1: cause to agonize [syn: agonize, agonise] 2: suffer agony or anguish [syn: agonize, agonise]

v 1: declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized" [syn: canonize, canonise, saint] 2: treat as a sacred person; "He canonizes women" [syn: canonize, canonise]

v 1: put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay" [syn: dramatize, dramatise, adopt] 2: represent something in a dramatic manner; "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth" [syn: dramatize, dramatise] 3: add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise]

v 1: indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company" [syn: fantasy, fantasize, fantasise] 2: portray in the mind; "he is fantasizing the ideal wife" [syn: fantasize, fantasise]

v 1: to stimulate to action ; "..startled him awake"; "galvanized into action" [syn: startle, galvanize, galvanise] 2: cover with zinc; "galvanize steel" [syn: galvanize, galvanise] 3: stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock [syn: galvanize, galvanise]

v 1: make as big or large as possible; "Maximize your profits!" [syn: maximize, maximise] [ant: minimise, minimize] 2: make the most of; "He maximized his role" [syn: maximize, maximise]

v 1: put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks" [syn: nationalize, nationalise] [ant: denationalise, denationalize] 2: make national in character or scope; "His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press" [syn: nationalize, nationalise]

v 1: make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" [syn: naturalize, naturalise] [ant: denaturalise, denaturalize] 2: explain with reference to nature 3: adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" [syn: naturalize, naturalise] 4: make more natural or lifelike [syn: naturalize, naturalise] [ant: denaturalise, denaturalize] 5: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame]

v 1: assume sponsorship of [syn: sponsor, patronize, patronise] 2: do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of [syn: patronize, patronise, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor] [ant: boycott] 3: treat condescendingly [syn: patronize, patronise, condescend] 4: be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could" [syn: patronize, patronise, patronage, support, keep going]

v 1: arrange in random order; "Randomize the order of the numbers" [syn: randomize, randomise]

v 1: recite a rhapsody [syn: rhapsodize, rhapsodise] 2: say (something) with great enthusiasm [syn: rhapsodize, rhapsodise]

v 1: make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" [syn: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still] [ant: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on] 2: cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation" [syn: sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise] [ant: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate]

v 1: provoke the hostility of; "Don't antagonize your boss" [syn: antagonize, antagonise] 2: act in opposition to [syn: antagonize, antagonise, counteract]

v 1: preach the gospel (to) [syn: evangelize, evangelise] 2: convert to Christianity; "The missionaries evangelized the Pacific Islanders" [syn: evangelize, evangelise]

v 1: spread throughout the body; "the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved" [syn: metastasize, metastasise]

v 1: interpret romantically; "Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!" [syn: romanticize, romanticise, glamorize, glamourise] 2: make romantic in style; "The designer romanticized the little black dress" [syn: romanticize, romanticise] 3: act in a romantic way