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proportionize

proportionize verb: to ensure that everything is in proper proportion to form a harmonious or properly functioning whole.

Verb

proportionize (third-person singular simple present proportionizes, present participle proportionizing, simple past and past participle proportionized)

  1. To ensure that everything is in proper proportion to form a harmonious or properly functioning whole.
    • Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides...1892, Occident - Volume 22, page 36
    • The New Tesstament precepts do need, if not to be re-written, at all events to be interpreted and, as it were, proportionized, before they can be wholesomely and wisely applied to the special needs of our, or any, generation.1892, Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman - Volume 2, page 12

Forms of proportionize

third-person singular presentproportionizes
present participleproportionizing
past participleproportionized
pastproportionized
alternative formproportionise

Origin of proportionize

From proportion + -ize.

Questions about proportionize

What does proportionize mean?
Proportionize means to ensure that everything is in proper proportion to form a harmonious or properly functioning whole.
What part of speech is proportionize?
Proportionize is a verb.
What is the past tense of proportionize?
The past tense of proportionize is proportionized.

Words near proportionize in the dictionary

  1. proportioning
  2. proportionise
  3. proportionised
  4. proportionises
  5. proportionising
  6. proportionize
  7. proportionized
  8. proportionizes
  9. proportionizing
  10. proportionless
  11. proportionlessness

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