particularize

Verb

particularize (third-person singular simple present particularizes, present participle particularizing, simple past and past participle particularized)

1. (transitive) To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.

   Synonyms:

   set apart

2. (intransitive, transitive) To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
   • 'Tis hard I confesse, yet I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularize them according to their species.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section...
   • Twice we find him, not only boasting of his Parentage, as an Israelite at large, but particularizing his Descent from the Tribe of Benjamin.1709 December 6, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy, at their Anniversary-Meeting in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Dec 6, 1709; published in Sermons and Discourses...

   Synonyms:

   clarify

3. (intransitive) To differentiate, make distinct from others.

   Synonyms:

   distinguish