-ise

Usage

• chastise

  If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for doing something wrong.

• Americanise

  to make something have an American quality

• Romanise

  to make something have the quality of a Roman

• anesthetise

  administer an anesthetic drug to

• civilise

  teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• commercialise

  make commercial

• crystallise

  make free from confusion or ambiguity

• fertilise

  make fertile or productive

• formalise

  make formal or official

• harmonise

  go together

• idolise

  love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess

• legalise

  make legal

• materialise

  come into being

• memorise

  commit to memory

• modernise

  become technologically advanced

• organise

  bring order and organization to

• privatise

  change from governmental to private control or ownership

• realise

  earn on some commercial or business transaction

• sterilise

  make free from bacteria