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UNIVERSALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does universalize mean?
• UNIVERSALIZE (verb)
The verb UNIVERSALIZE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNIVERSALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they universalize
... he / she / it universalizes

Past simple: universalized

Past participle: universalized

-ing form: universalizing





Past simple: universalized


Past participle: universalized


-ing form: universalizing


Sense 1
Meaning:
Make universal
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
universalise; universalize
Context example:
This author's stories universalize old themes
Hypernyms (to "universalize" is one way to...):
extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
universal (of worldwide scope or applicability)
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