-ize-ize (also -ise British English) /aɪz/ suffix [in verbs]Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN-ize
Origin:
Old French-iser, from Late Latin-izare, from Greek-izein
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
his endless sermonizing
1to make something have more of a particular quality: We need to modernize our procedures. (=make them more modern) Americanized spelling (=spelling made more American) privatized transport (=bus or train services that are owned and operated by private companies)2to change something to something else, or be changed to something else: The liquid crystallized (=turned into crystals).3to speak or think in the way mentioned: to soliloquize (=speak a soliloquy, to yourself) I sat and listened to him sermonizing (=speaking solemnly, as if in a sermon).4to put into a particular place: She was hospitalized after the accident.