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Definition of -ize suffix from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

-ize

suffix

/aɪz/

/aɪz/

(British English also -ise)

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to become, make or make like
- privatize
- fossilize
- Americanize
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to speak, think, act, treat, etc. in the way mentioned
- criticize
- theorize
- deputize
- pasteurize
to place in
- hospitalize
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