SYSTEMATISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does systematise mean? 

• SYSTEMATISE (verb)
  The verb SYSTEMATISE has 1 sense:

1. arrange according to a system or reduce to a system

  Familiarity information: SYSTEMATISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYSTEMATISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they systematise    ... he / she / it systematises   
Past simple: systematised   
Past participle: systematised   
-ing form: systematising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange according to a system or reduce to a system

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

systematise; systematize; systemise; systemize

Context example:

systematize our scientific knowledge

Hypernyms (to "systematise" is one way to...):

order (bring order to or into)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "systematise"):

digest (systematize, as by classifying and summarizing)

codify (organize into a code or system, such as a body of law)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

systematisation (systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale)

systematiser (an organizer who puts things in order)