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UNIVERSALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does universalize mean? 

UNIVERSALIZE (verb)
  The verb UNIVERSALIZE has 1 sense:

1. make universalplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


UNIVERSALIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they universalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it universalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: universalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: universalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: universalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make universal

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

universalise; universalize

Context example:

This author's stories universalize old themes

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

extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

universal (of worldwide scope or applicability)


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