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Singularize

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

v. To make conspicuous; distinguish.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make singular.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make singular or single; to distinguish.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make singular; change to the singular number. See singularization.

To signalize; distinguish.

Also spelled singularise.

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

v. distinguish as singular

Word Usage

"Jewish suffering in occupied France was further relativized by two contradictory attitudes: an insensitivity, born of hostility, to the murder of Jews; and a generous universalistic desire not to singularize Jews as victims but to see them primarily as human casualties of German terror and Vichy perfidy in France."

Verb Form

singularized singularizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

signalise signalize distinguish

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

distinguish individualize