say it: NAWR-muh-lahyz
normalize is a verb meaning "become normal or return to its normal state". It carries 3 recorded senses.
make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
“normalize relations with China”
“normalize the temperature”
“normalize the spelling”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for normalize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.