| VERB | communication | generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer | draw from specific cases for more general cases |
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| communication | generalize, generalise | speak or write in generalities / generalities | |
| communication | generalize, popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalise | cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public | |
| body | generalize, generalise | become systemic and spread throughout the body |
| Sounds | jheh'nerahlay.z | |
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| Rhymes | actualize ... womanize: 266 rhymes with ayz... | |
| Meaning | Draw from specific cases for more general cases. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Synonyms | generalise, extrapolate, infer | |
| Narrower | overgeneralize, overgeneralise | Draw too general a conclusion |
| universalize, universalise | make universal | |
| Broader | reason, reason out, conclude | decide by reasoning |
| Spanish | extrapolar, generalizar, inferir | |
| Catalan | extrapolar | |
| Nouns | generalization | reasoning from detailed facts to general principles |
| generalization | (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | |
| generalization | the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | |
| Meaning | speak or write in generalities / generalities. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Model | Sam and Sue generalize | |
| Synonym | generalise | |
| Broader | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech |
| Opposite | specify, particularize, particularise, specialize, specialise | Be specific about |
| Spanish | generalizar | |
| Nouns | generalization | an idea or conclusion having general application |
| Meaning | cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalise | |
| Broader | circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around | Cause to become widely known |
| Similar to | popularize, popularise | make understandable to the general public |
| Spanish | popularizar, vulgarizar | |
| Catalan | popularitzar | |
| Meaning | Become systemic and spread throughout the body. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system" | |
| Synonym | generalise | |
| Broader | spread, distribute | Distribute or disperse widely |
| Spanish | generalizarse, generalizar | |
| Catalan | escampar-se, generalitzar-se | |
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