-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
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