verb
1. speak or write in generalities
• Syn: ↑generalize
• Ant: ↑specify (for: ↑generalize)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑generalisation, ↑generalization (for: ↑generalize)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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Sam and Sue generalise
2. draw from specific cases for more general cases
• Syn: ↑generalize, ↑extrapolate, ↑infer
• Derivationally related forms: ↑inference (for: ↑infer), ↑extrapolation (for: ↑extrapolate), ↑generalisation, ↑generalization (for: ↑generalize)
• Hypernyms: ↑reason, ↑reason out, ↑conclude
• Hyponyms: ↑overgeneralize, ↑overgeneralise, ↑universalize, ↑universalise
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s that CLAUSE
3. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
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They popularized coffee in Washington State
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Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
• Syn: ↑popularize, ↑popularise, ↑vulgarize, ↑vulgarise, ↑generalize
• Derivationally related forms:
↑vulgarisation (for: ↑vulgarise), ↑vulgariser (for: ↑vulgarise), ↑vulgar (for: ↑vulgarize), ↑vulgarization (for: ↑vulgarize), ↑vulgarizer (for: ↑vulgarize), ↑popularisation (for: ↑popularise), ↑populariser (for: ↑popularise), ↑popularization (for: ↑popularize), ↑popularizer (for: ↑popularize)
• Hypernyms:
↑circulate, ↑circularize, ↑circularise, ↑distribute, ↑disseminate, ↑propagate, ↑broadcast, ↑spread, ↑diffuse, ↑disperse, ↑pass around
• Verb Group: ↑popularize, ↑popularise
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
4. become systemic and spread throughout the body
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this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system
• Syn: ↑generalize
• Hypernyms: ↑spread, ↑distribute
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Something is ——ing PP
Useful english dictionary. 2012.