ACTUALIZE | • actualize v. (Transitive) To make real; to realize. • actualize v. (Intransitive) To become actual or real. • actualize v. (Reflexive) To realize one’s full potential. |
MUTUALIZE | • mutualize v. To make, or to become mutual. • mutualize v. To organize a business (especially a financial business) so that it is owned by its customers (or its employees). • MUTUALIZE v. to organize (a company etc.) on cooperative or mutual principles, also MUTUALISE. |
RITUALIZE | • ritualize v. (US, transitive) To make into a ritual. • RITUALIZE v. to make into a ritual, also RITUALISE. |
TEXTUALIZE | • textualize v. (Transitive) To make textual; to set down in, or reduce to, text. |
VIRTUALIZE | • virtualize v. (Transitive, computing) To run a program in virtual storage. • virtualize v. (Transitive, computing) To simulate (or make virtual) some effect or condition on a computer. • virtualize v. (Transitive, art) To make or conform to a virtual reality. |
DEMUTUALIZE | • demutualize v. (Of a company, especially a building society) To change from mutual ownership to ownership via stocks or shares. • DEMUTUALIZE v. of a company, esp. a building society or other financial institution, to convert from a mutual company to one owned by stock- or shareholders, also DEMUTUALISE. |
EVENTUALIZE | • eventualize v. To take place or occur. • EVENTUALIZE v. to happen, come into being, also EVENTUALISE. |
SPIRITUALIZE | • spiritualize v. To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality. • spiritualize v. To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a… • spiritualize v. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize. |
CONCEPTUALIZE | • conceptualize v. To interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept. • conceptualize v. To conceive the idea for something. • CONCEPTUALIZE v. to form a concept of, also CONCEPTUALISE. |
CONTEXTUALIZE | • contextualize v. To place something or someone in a particular context. • CONTEXTUALIZE v. to place in a context, also CONTEXTUALISE. |
DESPIRITUALIZE | • despiritualize v. To remove the spiritual element from. • DESPIRITUALIZE v. to deprive of spiritual character or influence, also DESPIRITUALISE. |
RESPIRITUALIZE | • respiritualize v. To spiritualize again. • RESPIRITUALIZE v. to spiritualize again, also RESPIRITUALISE. |
UNSPIRITUALIZE | • unspiritualize v. (Transitive) To deprive of spirituality. • UNSPIRITUALIZE v. to make unspiritual, also UNSPIRITUALISE. |
DECONTEXTUALIZE | • decontextualize v. (Transitive) To divest of context. • DECONTEXTUALIZE v. to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context, also DECONTEXTUALISE. |
INTELLECTUALIZE | • intellectualize v. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually. • intellectualize v. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual. • intellectualize v. (US) To find a seemingly rational explanation for something. |
RECONCEPTUALIZE | • reconceptualize v. (Transitive) To conceptualize afresh; to develop a replacement concept of. • RECONCEPTUALIZE v. to form a new concept of, also RECONCEPTUALISE. |
RECONTEXTUALIZE | • recontextualize v. (Transitive) To set in a new context. • RECONTEXTUALIZE v. to place (as a literary or artistic work) in a different context, also RECONTEXTUALISE. |