D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

-ize

· IPA /-aɪz/
01 suff. A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as, apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.
  1. 1.
    A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as, apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.