单词	-ize
释义	-ize-ize (also -ise British English) /aɪz/ suffix [in verbs] Word Origin WORD ORIGIN-ize Origin: Old French -iser, from Late Latin -izare, from Greek -izein Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES his endless sermonizing 1to make something have more of a particular quality:  We need to modernize our procedures. (=make them more modern) Americanized spelling (=spelling made more American) privatized transport (=bus or train services that are owned and operated by private companies)2to change something to something else, or be changed to something else:  The liquid crystallized (=turned into crystals).3to speak or think in the way mentioned:  to soliloquize (=speak a soliloquy, to yourself) I sat and listened to him sermonizing (=speaking solemnly, as if in a sermon).4to put into a particular place:  She was hospitalized after the accident.
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