PARTICULARIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does particularize mean? 

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

1. be specific about

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTICULARIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they particularize    ... he / she / it particularizes   
Past simple: particularized   
Past participle: particularized   
-ing form: particularizing   

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 "particularize" 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 "particularize"):

spell out (make explicit; specify in detail)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

particularization (an individualized description of a particular instance)

 Context examples 

His looks shewing him not pained, but pleased with this allusion to his situation, she was emboldened to go on; and feeling in herself the right of seniority of mind, she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularize, mentioned such works of our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of worth and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated to rouse and fortify the mind by the highest precepts, and the strongest examples of moral and religious endurances.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)