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-ize (īz)

  1. to cause to be or become; make conform with or resemble; make democratize, Americanize
  2. to become, become like, or change into crystallize
  3. to subject to, treat with, or combine with oxidize, galvanize
  4. to engage in; act in a (specified) way soliloquize, theorize

Etymology: ME -isen < OFr -iser < LL -izare < Gr -izein

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