ADVERTIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advertize mean? 

• ADVERTIZE (verb)
  The verb ADVERTIZE has 2 senses:

1. make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

2. call attention to

  Familiarity information: ADVERTIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVERTIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they advertize    ... he / she / it advertizes   
Past simple: advertized   
Past participle: advertized   
-ing form: advertizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advertise; advertize; promote; push

Context example:

The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops

Hypernyms (to "advertize" is one way to...):

praise (express approval of)

Verb group:

agitate; campaign; crusade; fight; press; push (exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for)

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

propagandise; propagandize (spread by propaganda)

plug (make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote)

bill (advertise especially by posters or placards)

agitate; campaign; crusade; fight; press; push (exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue advertize the movie

Derivation:

advertizement (a public promotion of some product or service)

advertizer (someone whose business is advertising)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Call attention to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advertise; advertize; publicise; publicize

Context example:

Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS

Hypernyms (to "advertize" is one way to...):

announce; denote (make known; make an announcement)

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

headline (publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline)

ballyhoo (advertize noisily or blatantly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something