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Definition: Subtilize |
SubtilizeVerb1. Mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words. 2. Make more subtle or refined. 3. Make more keen, as of the senses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "subtilize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Synonyms: SubtilizeSynonyms: rarefy (v), sublimate (v), subtilise (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rarity | Verb: rarefy, expand, dilate, subtilize. |
Reasoning, | Pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over, varnish; misteach; mislead; (error); cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs; misrepresent; (lie). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Subtilize |
| English words defined with "subtilize": Subtilized, Subtilizing. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "subtilize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hollësoj. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إختلس (embezzle, misappropriate, palm, purloin, rob, scrounge, siphon, snaffle, snatch, snitch, steal), أرهف الحواس, دقق في التفكير. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | споря изкусно, възвисявам (raise, sublimate, uplift), впускам се в големи тънкости, впускам се в големи подробности, облагородявам (ennoble, humanize, raise), пречиствам (baptize, defecate, filtrate, purify, rarefy, rectify, scavenge, scrub, spiritualize, sublimate), изострям (edge, escalate, exacerbate, sharpen, taper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | subtiliser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kifinomít (sublimate, to humanize, to improve, to polish, to rarefy, to sublimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sottilizzare (split hairs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubtilizesay sutilizar (rarefy), volatilizar (vapor, vaporize, vapour, volatilize), usar de sutilezas, tornar sutil. (various references) subtiliza (lift, nobble, sneak). (various references) возвышать (elevate, lift, sublimes, upraise), вдаваться в тонкости. (various references) utananiti, utančavati. (various references) sutilizar (quibble). (various references) seyreltmek (adulterate, attenuate, cut, dilute, rarefy, thin down, thin of, thin out), inceltmek (attenuate, diminish, fine away, fine down, reduce, refine, sharpen, slenderize, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out), incelmek (become slimer, fine away, fine down, fine off, get thinner, refine, slenderize, slim, taper, taper off, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out), ince farklara dikkat etmek. (various references) облагороджувати (elevate, ennoble, gentle, humanize), мудрувати, загострювати (acuminate, aggravate, edge, escalate, keen, peak, rankle, thin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "subtilize": subtilized, subtilizes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-i-l-s-t-u-z" | |
-1 letter: utilizes. | |
-2 letters: blitzes, subtile, utilise, utilize. | |
-3 letters: bezils, blites, bluest, bluets, bustle, butles, lutzes, sublet, subtle, zibets. | |
-4 letters: belts, bezil, biles, bites, bizes, blest, blets, blite, blitz, blues, bluet, built, butes, butle, etuis, ileus, islet, istle, lieus, lubes, lutes, stile, suite, tiles, tubes, tules, utile, zebus, zibet, zitis. | |
-5 letters: bels, belt, best, bets, bile, bise. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-i-l-s-t-u-z" | |
+1 letter: subtilized, subtilizes. | |
+4 letters: nebulizations, squeezability. | |
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