UNIVERSALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does universalize mean? 

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

1. make universal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVERSALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they universalize    ... he / she / it universalizes   
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)