liberalize

Other forms of liberalize

past tense

liberalized·

present participle

liberalizing·

third person

liberalizes·

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 liberalize

What does liberalize mean?

liberalize means "make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liberalize?

liberalize has 4 syllables: lib-e-ra-lize. The stress falls on "lib". In IPA it is /ˈlɪˌbɝəˌlaɪz/.

What is another word for liberalize?

Close synonyms include liberalise, liberalise. 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 liberalize a common word?

liberalize 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.

What rhymes with liberalize?

83 words rhyme with liberalize. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.