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Liberalize

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

v. To make liberal or more liberal: "Our standards of private conduct have been greatly liberalized . . . over recent years” ( Meg Greenfield).

verb-intransitive. To become liberal or more liberal.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to make liberal, free.

v. to become liberal, free.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices; to make less strict.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To render liberal; enlarge the freedom or scope of; free from narrowness or prejudice: as, to liberalize the institutions of a country.

To become liberal.

Also spelled liberalise.

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

v. make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules

v. become more liberal

Word Usage

"The failure to liberalize is certainly expensive: estimates of the worldwide losses stemming from trade barriers vary, but over time the cost will surely run into the trillions of dollars."

Verb Form

liberalized liberalizes liberalizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change

Form

liberalized liberalizing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

broaden catholicize widen