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Individualize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To give individuality to.

v. To consider or treat individually; particularize.

v. To modify to suit the wishes or needs of a particular individual: individualized the work schedules of all the physicians.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To give something its own individuality; to characterize or differentiate.

v. To modify something to suit an individual; to personalize.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality; to give distinctive character to; to make distinctive; to enable differentiation from others of similar type; -- of properties of things.

v. to render (a product or service) suitable to each individual person by varying to some degree its characteristics; to personalize.

v. To consider individually; to mention each individual.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To note or consider separately or as individuals: as, careful observation individualizes the features of a landscape.

To stamp with individual character; give a distinctive character to; distinguish: as, Carlyle's peculiar style strongly individualizes his works.

Also spelled individualise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make or mark or treat as individual

v. make personal or more personal

Word Usage

"VORDER BRUEGGE: Patterned shirts are very easy to individualize, that is to say, to identify them, to the exclusion of all other shirts."

Verb Form

individualized individualizes individualizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

severalise separate secern secernate severalize

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

singularize peculiarize define

Same Context

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