-izesuffix
UK usually -ise uk/ -aɪz/us/ -aɪz/added to adjectives to form verbs meaning to cause to become:
to modernize (= to make modern)
to centralize
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing things to happen
- -ization
- actuate
- actuation
- agent
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- draw
- fuel
- instigate
- instigator
- introduce
- jumping-off point
- lie
- plant
- produce
- rise
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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