Dictionary Entry
generalize
generalize is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 23 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
- 2transitive verb
To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.
- 3transitive verb
To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
- 4intransitive verb
To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.
- 5verb
become systemic and spread throughout the body
"this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system"
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- 6verb
cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
"They popularized coffee in Washington State"
"Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
- 7verb
draw from specific cases for more general cases
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- 8verb
speak or write in generalities
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