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Universalize

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

v. To make universal; generalize.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make universal, to make consistent or common across all cases.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make universal; to generalize.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make universal; generalize. Also spelled universalise.

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

v. make universal

Word Usage

"A Hanukkah menorah most certainly does not "universalize" a Christmas tree; if anything, the opposite is true: it turns the tree, which symbolizes a holiday whose message is "joy to the world and peace on Earth" into a particularist symbol like the menorah itself."

Verb Form

universalized universalizes universalizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

generalize generalise infer extrapolate

Form

universalized universalizing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

generalize