UNIVERSALIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they universalize ... he / she / it universalizes

Past simple: universalized

Past participle: universalized

-ing form: universalizing

Meaning:

Make universal

Example:

This author's stories universalize old themes

Synonyms:

universalise; universalize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "universalize" is one way to...):

extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

universal (of worldwide scope or applicability)