REGULARIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regularize mean? 

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

1. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

2. make regular or more regular

  Familiarity information: REGULARIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGULARIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they regularize    ... he / she / it regularizes   
Past simple: regularized   
Past participle: regularized   
-ing form: regularizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

govern; order; regularise; regularize; regulate

Context example:

This town likes to regulate

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

decide; determine; make up one's mind (reach, make, or come to a decision about something)

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

standardise; standardize (cause to conform to standard or norm)

district; zone (regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make regular or more regular

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

regularise; regularize

Context example:

regularize the heart beat with a pace maker

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

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

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

even; even out (make even or more even)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

regularization (the condition of having been made regular (or more regular))