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INDIVIDUALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they individualize
... he / she / it individualizes
Past simple: individualized
Past participle: individualized
-ing form: individualizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make personal or more personal
Example:
personalized service
Synonyms:
individualise; individualize; personalise; personalize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "individualize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
individual (a human being)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make or mark or treat as individual
Example:
The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone
Synonyms:
individualise; individualize
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "individualize" is one way to...):
differentiate; distinguish; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart (mark as different)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
individual (a single organism)
individualization (discriminating the individual from the generic group or species)