| VERB | communication | rationalize, apologize, apologise, excuse, rationalise | defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning |
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| change | rationalize, cut, prune, rationalise | weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | |
| possession | rationalize, rationalise | structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results | |
| cognition | rationalize, rationalise | think rationally | |
| change | rationalize, rationalise | remove irrational quantities from |
| Sounds | rae'shahnahlay.z | |
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| Rhymes | actualize ... womanize: 266 rhymes with ayz... | |
| Meaning | defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
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| Synonyms | apologize, apologise, excuse, rationalise | |
| Narrower | color, colour, gloss | Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for |
| extenuate, palliate, mitigate | lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | |
| plead | offer as an excuse or plea | |
| Broader | defend, support, fend for | argue or speak in defense / defense of |
| Spanish | disculparse, disculpar, excusar, justificar, perdonar, racionalizar | |
| Catalan | apologitzar, excusar, justificar, perdonar | |
| Nouns | rationalization | the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason |
| Meaning | weed out unwanted or unnecessary things. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | cut, prune, rationalise | |
| Broader | extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with | Terminate, end, or take out |
| Spanish | escamondar | |
| Catalan | esporgar | |
| Meaning | structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits" | |
| Synonym | rationalise | |
| Broader | organize, organise | Cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea |
| Nouns | rationalization | the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency |
| Meaning | Think rationally; employ logic or reason. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize" | |
| Synonym | rationalise | |
| Broader | think, cogitate, cerebrate | Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments |
| Nouns | rationalization | systematic organization |
| Meaning | Remove irrational quantities from. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "This function can be rationalized" | |
| Synonym | rationalise | |
| Category | mathematics, math, maths | A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Spanish | racionalizar | |
| Nouns | rationalization | (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation |
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