communise

1. 1.

   make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles

   “communize the government”

   Synonymscommunizebolshevizebolshevise

   Broaderchange
2. 2.

   make into property owned by the state

   “The new government communized all banks”

   Synonymscommunize

   Broadernationalize

Other forms of communise

past tense

communised·

present participle

communising·

third person

communises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about communise

What does communise mean?

communise means "make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in communise?

communise has 3 syllables: com-mu-nise. The stress falls on "com".

What is another word for communise?

Close synonyms include communize, bolshevize, bolshevise, communize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is communise a common word?

communise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.