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-ize

  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

See -ize in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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