SYSTEMIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does systemize mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYSTEMIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they systemize    ... he / she / it systemizes   
Past simple: systemized   
Past participle: systemized   
-ing form: systemizing   

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 "systemize" is one way to...):

order (bring order to or into)

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

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:

system (an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized)

system (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)

systemizer (an organizer who puts things in order)