-IZE


Meaning of -IZE in English

-ize BrE AmE ( also -ise British English ) /aɪz/ suffix [in verbs]

[ Language: Old French ; Origin: -iser , from Late Latin -izare , from Greek -izein ]

1 . to make something have more of a particular quality:

We need to modernize our procedures. (=make them more modern)

Americanized spelling (=spelling made more American)

privatized transport (=bus or train services that are owned and operated by private companies)

2 . to change something to something else, or be changed to something else:

The liquid crystallized (=turned into ↑ crystal s ) .

3 . to speak or think in the way mentioned:

to soliloquize (=speak a ↑ soliloquy , to yourself)

I sat and listened to him sermonizing (=speaking solemnly, as if in a ↑ sermon ) .

4 . to put into a particular place:

She was hospitalized after the accident.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.