-ize

-ize (also -ise British English) /aɪz/ suffix [in verbs]

1 MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONto make something have more of a particular quality 使〔某物〕更大程度地具有〔某种特点〕；使…化

We need to modernize our procedures. (=make them more modern)

我们要使我们的程序现代化。

Americanized spelling (=spelling made more American)

美式拼写

privatized transport (=bus or train services that are owned and operated by private companies)

私有化的运输服务

2 CHANGE FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHERto change something to something else, or be changed to something else 转变；变成

The liquid crystallized (=turned into crystals).

液体结晶了。

3 SAY/STATEto speak or think in the way mentioned 以…方式讲话[思考]

to soliloquize (=speak a soliloquy, to yourself)

自言自语

I sat and listened to him sermonizing (=speaking solemnly, as if in a sermon).

我坐着听他说教。

4 PUTto put into a particular place 置于〔某处〕

She was hospitalized after the accident.

事故发生后她被送进医院。

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Origin -ize

Old French -iser, from Late Latin -izare, from Greek -izein

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