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UNIVERSALIZE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they universalize ... he / she / it universalizes
Past simple: universalized
Past participle: universalized
-ing form: universalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
This author's stories universalize old themes
Synonyms:
universalise; universalize
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "universalize" is one way to...):
extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
universal (of worldwide scope or applicability)