-ize

Universal Words -ise suffix (in verbs) 1 to become, make or make like: privatize * fossilize * Americanize 2 to speak, think, act, treat, etc. in the way mentioned: criticize * theorize * deputize * pasteurize 3 to place in: hospitalize -ization, -isation(in nouns): immunization -izationally, -isationally(in adverbs): organizationally