Rhymes with civilize
civ·i·lize
C c Two-syllable rhymes
- civil — You use civil to describe events that happen within a country and that involve the different groups of people in it.
Three-syllable rhymes
- christianize — to make Christian or convert to Christianity
- civilise — To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
- civilized — If you describe a society as civilized, you mean that it is advanced and has sensible laws and customs.
- classify — To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group.
- criticize — If you criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.
- crystallize — If you crystallize an opinion or idea, or if it crystallizes, it becomes fixed and definite in someone's mind.
- customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
- digitize — to convert (data) to digital form for use in a computer.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- improvise — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- minimize — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
- privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- realize — to grasp or understand clearly.
- recognize — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- simplify — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- stigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- symbolize — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- sympathies — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympathize — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synthesize — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- victimize — to make a victim of.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- capitalize — If you capitalize on a situation, you use it to gain some advantage for yourself.
- initialize — to set (variables, counters, switches, etc.) to their starting values at the beginning of a program or subprogram.
- legitimize — to make legitimate.
- liberalize — Remove or loosen restrictions on (something, typically an economic or political system).
- opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
- soliloquize — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- trivialize — to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
- uncivilized — not civilized or cultured; barbarous.
- visualize — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- individualize — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.