| Verb | 1.generalise - speak or write in generalitiesgeneralizemouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" | | 2.generalise - draw from specific cases for more general casesextrapolate, generalize, inferconclude, reason, reason out - decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"overgeneralise, overgeneralize - draw too general a conclusion; "It is dangerous to overgeneralize"universalise, universalize - make universal; "This author's stories universalize old themes" | | 3.generalise - 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"popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize, generalizepopularise, popularize - make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"disseminate, pass around, circulate, diffuse, broadcast, circularise, circularize, spread, disperse, propagate, distribute - cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" | | 4.generalise - become systemic and spread throughout the body; "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system"generalizespread, distribute - distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country" |