Rhymes with idolize
i·dol·ize
I i Two-syllable rhymes
Three-syllable rhymes
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- colonize — If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- compromise — A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- criticize — If you criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.
- customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
- deify — If someone is deified, they are considered to be a god or are regarded with very great respect.
- dynamite — A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks.
- falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- fantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- finalize — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- glorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- hybridize — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hydrolyze — Break down (a compound) by chemical reaction with water.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- idolized — to regard with blind adoration, devotion, etc.
- iodine — a nonmetallic halogen element occurring at ordinary temperatures as a grayish-black crystalline solid that sublimes to a dense violet vapor when heated: used in medicine as an antiseptic. Symbol: I; atomic weight: 126.904; atomic number: 53; specific gravity: (solid) 4.93 at 20°C.
- ionize — to separate or change into ions.
- itemize — to state by items; give the particulars of; list the individual units or parts of: to itemize an account.
- lionize — to treat (a person) as a celebrity: to lionize the visiting poet.
- minimize — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
- realize — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realized — 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.
- symbolize — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- verify — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- apologize — When you apologize to someone, you say that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them. You can say 'I apologize' as a formal way of saying sorry.
- idealize — to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- revitalize — to give new life to.
- visualize — to recall or form mental images or pictures.