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To put or to endanger something or someone in a situation that involves possible injury, harm, or even death: Pamela was imperialized when she got into an accident while driving through a dangerous intersection.

People who smoke cigarettes, or cigars, definitely imperialize their health.

Sam told his administrator that he found out that his company was imperializing itself with bad investments.

To make something or someone different from other similar things or situations: Alisa was encouraged to individualize the characters in the novel that she was writing.

It took awhile to achieve, but Roy worked to individualize his web site so it would appeal to more than one age group, including both teenagers and older visitors.

To threaten, to endanger, or to hazard: Eileen's health has been jeopardized because of poor nutrition, drinking, and smoking. © ALL rights are reserved.

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To make something or someone legal, acceptable, or officially proper: Jenifer called her employer to legitimatize her absence from work because she was very sick with influenza.

To compile a collection of alphabetized words into the form of a dictionary: John and Virginia have been working together to lexiconize thousands of words for this Word Info site.

To make something less strict and more tolerant towards accepting new attitudes, considerations, and ideas regarding solutions for achieving objectives; to remove restrictions: Some countries have been liberalizing their immigration policies, however President Trump has been more rigorous and stringent about them.

To form words with the aid of the tongue, especially the tip: Rodger's difficulty while speaking is when he lingualizes words that begin with the letter "t" like "take", "tooth", "top", etc.

1. To construct or to pave a road with small, broken stones that are bound together with asphalt or tar: Mark Twain was an early advocate of bicycle transportation, for example he was quoted in an 1895 edition of Portland’s Oregonian newspaper as suggesting the city macadamize its streets and to purchase bicycles, and rent them out to the citizens.

From Fletcher Moore Twain’s Bike Lessons; "Poets & Writers" (New York); September/October 2011.

2. Etymology: Named after John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), civil engineer, who pioneered this method of building a road and the word was originally a trademark, that was coined by combining tar + McAdam.

To render manlike or more like a boy or a man: James had obviously had the form and appearance a male because he always masculinizes the types of clothing that he wears.

1. To come into being or to appear suddenly, as if out of nowhere: A truck suddenly materialized out of the fog on the highway.
2. To become a reality or to become a fact: The military unit found that their support did not materialize as they had expected it would.
3. To cause a supposed ghost or spirit to assume a physical form: While Pete was at the graveyard late one evening, he was shocked to see what he thought was a man materializing out of the fog and walking past him. © ALL rights are reserved.

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To increase or to magnify to the greatest degree or amount: Harry's food stores are striving to maximize the sales of their products in order to have more money to establish even more stores!

To learn something so well that a person is able to remember it perfectly; learn something by heart; to commit to memory: Henry memorized his speech before delivering it on TV.

An actor and an actress usually memorize their lines for the various scenes of a drama for an audience or even for movies.

1. To have someone's complete attention so he or she cannot think of anything else: When Patty met Sam at the party, he seemed to mesmerize and fascinate her so much that she couldn't take her eyes off of him!
2. To bewitch someone or to put a person into a trance: Dr. Grimms said he could mesmerize, or hypnotise, the patient during the therapeutic session in order to find out what happened at the accident the previous year.
3. Origin of the word: Mesmerize comes from the name of the Austrian physician, Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1733-1815), who was the first to produce examples of hypnotism to the public in Vienna about 1775. © ALL rights are reserved.
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To change food into a form that can be used by a person's body: Eve was cooking a meal for her family that could be easily metabolized by both of her children and the mother and father.

The bodies of people and animals metabolize nourishment and build up new cells and tissues which provide heat and make it possible to engage in physical activities.

1. To equip or train someone or group of people for war: The armed forces was militarizing, or mobilizing, the soldiers with weapons.
2. To convert something such as a piece of land or a building for soldiers to use: The vacated lot was militarized with housing for the troops.
3. To persuade somebody to support a policy of aiding and promoting the armed forces: The officer tried to militarize the group of students on the street with the principles and spirit of the army.