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PARTICULARISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does particularise mean? 

PARTICULARISE (verb)
  The verb PARTICULARISE has 1 sense:

1. be specific aboutplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PARTICULARISE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they particularise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it particularises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: particularised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: particularised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: particularising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Be specific about

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

particularise; particularize; specialise; specialize; specify

Context example:

Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?

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

dilate; elaborate; enlarge; expand; expatiate; exposit; expound; flesh out; lucubrate (add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing)

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

spell out (make explicit; specify in detail)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

particularisation (an individualized description of a particular instance)


 Context examples 


I need not particularise.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)



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