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(intransitive) To be changed by acculturation.
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Alternative form of adonise [(transitive) To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of.]
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(transitive, sociology, psychology) To raise (a child) in such a way that it adopts adult behaviors earlier than is usual.
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Alternative form of aesthetize [Synonym of aestheticise]
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(transitive) To convert (a community) to use agriculture (rather than hunting and gathering, or industry, etc).
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(transitive) To make amateur; to open up (a profession, etc.) to amateurs.
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(transitive) To make angular.
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(intransitive) To get athletic or act in an athletic way.
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(transitive, literature) To convert into an autobiography.
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(transitive) To make autocratic.
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(transitive) To introduce automobiles to.
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(transitive) To give the appearance of autumn; to make autumnal.
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(transitive) To make banal or commonplace.
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(transitive) To adapt to, or incorporate into, a budget.
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(transitive) To divide into cantons or small districts.
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(economics, chiefly Britain) To convert from regular to casual labor
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(rare, idiomatic, transitive) To make (an industry or field of commerce) into a vertically and horizontally integrated industry.
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(transitive, informal) To make more like a city person.
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To change the status of (a member of the armed forces) to that of a civilian.
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To conform to the classic style.
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To come under public ownership or control.
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(transitive, ergative) To convert to a condo.
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(obsolete) To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt.
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To provide with a constitution
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(transitive) To make suitable for mass consumption; to convert to a consumer-oriented product or service (as when an industrial, professional, or business-to-business product or service enters the consumer market).
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To bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context
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(transitive) To make to appear controversial.
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(transitive) To make into a cordial.
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To transform state assets, government agencies, or municipal organizations into publicly-owned corporations.
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To move to, or centre on the cortex
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(transitive) To make cosmic.
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(transitive) To adapt into an academic curriculum.
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(transitive) To make (something) cybernetic.
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Alternative form of dehumanizer [One who, or that which, dehumanizes.]
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(Christianity, transitive) To explain or interpret in terms of docetism.
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(intransitive) To speak or write dogmatically.
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(transitive) To make educational.
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(transitive) To subject to enculturation.
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Alternative form of inthronize [(obsolete) To enthrone.]
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Alternative form of epilogize [(transitive) To speak an epilogue to.]
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Alternative form of epilogize [(transitive) To speak an epilogue to.]
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(transitive) To make ethical.
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(UK) Alternative form of euhemerize [(transitive, intransitive, derogatory) To invent a plausible but fanciful historical origin for something in order to explain away mythology and legends.]
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(transitive) To externalize.
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(transitive) To make exterritorial.
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(transitive) To make extraterritorial.
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To educate in an academic discipline.
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(transitive) To change (a unitary state) into a federation.
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(transitive) To adapt (a therapy) for use on cats.
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Alternative spelling of feminizer [One who or that which feminizes.]
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To make something feudal.
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(transitive) To bring into the future or make state of the art; modernize.
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(transitive) To subject to the abuses of gangsterism.
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(transitive) To make genetic; to reduce to a matter of genetics.
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(transitive) To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).
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(US, transitive) To bring (a private entity, or a decentralized entity) under government control; to nationalize.
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(transitive) To illustrate with material taken from published sources.
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(transitive) To convert (a process, etc.) into a more environmentally friendly form.
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Alternative form of habitualize [(US, law) To classify as a habitual offender (which has implications for sentencing).]
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(UK, Commonwealth, politics, dated) To confront a Member of Parliament with his former opinions as recorded in his speeches in Hansard.
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(transitive) to make hellish
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(transitive) To make into a hoodlum.
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(uncommon) To make idiomatic.
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(transitive) To naturalize.
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(transitive) To internalize; to bring inside oneself.
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(transitive) To make kitschy.
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(obsolete) To make a lady of; to make ladylike.
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(obsolete, early 20th century, US, usually derogatory) To amalgamate.
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(transitive) To make a topic or subject accessible to a layman; to simplify to the point where people without an advanced knowledge of the subject will be able to understand it.
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(transitive) To legalize.
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(transitive) to make liberal, free.
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(transitive) To bring into the mainstream; to adopt generally.
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(transitive) To perform or produce according to a certain manner or style.
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(transitive and intransitive, anthropology) To become, or cause to become, oriented toward mass production, mass consumption, and high throughput rather than individuality.
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(transitive) To make a matron of; to make matron-like.
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To reduce the effect of (something) by introducing a mediating agent.
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To make into a spiritual medium; to imbue with spiritual energy.
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Alternative form of melodize [(intransitive) To compose or play melodies.]
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(British spelling) Alternative spelling of modernizer [An advocate of modernization.]
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(intransitive) To become modern in appearance, or adopt modern ways
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(transitive) To make an activity profit-generating, particularly in computer and Internet-related activities.
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To make something become or appear monumental
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(transitive) To convert or adapt into a motion picture.
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To convert into a municipality
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Alternative spelling of mythologize [(transitive, now rare) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of.]
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To bring a private company under the control of a specific government.
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To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
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(intransitive) To modernise.
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(transitive) To make neurotic; to convert into a neurosis.
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(philosophy) To make nominalistic.
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(transitive) To make normative.
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To grant recognition to a degree from a foreign university; to nostrify.
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To turn into, or treat as, an object; to objectify.
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(transitive) To make oligarchic.
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(transitive) To convert a market into an oligopoly.
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(informal, transitive) To make into an opera or into the style of an opera; to make operatic.
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To change to a paramilitary system.
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(transitive) To make pastoral.
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(transitive) To make paternal; to place in a fatherly role.
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(transitive) To make permanent.
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(society, ergative) To divide into social pillars, in which each social group has its own social institutions.
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(intransitive) To engage in argument.
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(transitive) To make political; to politicize.
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(transitive) To give something political characteristics; to turn into a political issue
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(transitive) To make political; to politicize.
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(intransitive) To achieve posteriorization.
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(transitive) To make postmodern.
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(transitive) To render productive.
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To make something professional
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(transitive) To turn (a person or group) into proletariat.
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To convert by means of propositionalization
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(transitive) To make prosaic or commonplace.
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(transitive, intransitive) To practise psalmody.
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(transitive) To adapt to the style and norms of the punk subculture.
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(transitive) To make radical.
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The act of making a person or region Catholic again.
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The process of making democratic again.
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(transitive) To administer on a regional basis.
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(economics) To privatize a company that was previously nationalized
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The return of religious meaning to areas of public life.
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The act or process of revolutionizing.
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To make excessively formal, rigid, or pedantic.
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(transitive, intransitive) To make or become semiprofessional; to advance to a semiprofessional level.
n
Alternative form of sexualizer [One who sexualizes]
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To convert into slang; to add slang lexis; to make slangish.
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Alternative spelling of sorcerize [(transitive) To transform or alter through sorcery.]
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(transitive, colloquial) To make sporty, or convert into a form of sport.
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(transitive) To make tangential; to bring or drive away from its natural course.
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To make technical; to use technology (on)
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(transitive) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
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(intransitive) To become Thai
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(intransitive) To discuss or speculate about theological subjects.
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(transitive, philosophy) To convert into a thing; to make concrete or tangible.
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(sociology) To treat (a subject) as a topic.
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(transitive, agriculture, dated) To adapt (a farm) to use tractors.
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(transitive) To adapt to the norms or standards of a university.
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(transitive) To make venal; to put up for purchase.
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(transitive) To make vocational; to introduce career-related elements into.
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(transitive) To make whiggish.
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(transitive) To make (something) more appealing or relatable to young people
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