particularize
verb
par·tic·u·lar·ize
| \ pər-ˈti-k(yə-)lə-ˌrīz
, pə- also pär-\
, pə- also pär-\
particularized;
particularizing
Examples of particularize in a Sentence
My lawyer advised me to particularize all my complaints against my landlord.
He said he had been treated rudely, then went on to particularize.
Recent Examples on the Web
Ida and Wanda are at once archetypes—the Catholic and the Communist; the absolver and the judge—and carefully particularized human beings. — Giles Harvey, Harper's magazine, "Home Truths," 10 Jan. 2019 Within this prison, Ms. Nwandu has been careful to particularize and humanize her main characters so that the tragedy is not just theoretical or surreal. — Jesse Green, New York Times, "Review: Waiting for Po-Po in a Searing ‘Pass Over’," 18 June 2018 Photojournalists have deployed a familiar toolbox of artful devices to distill these panoramas of destruction down to human scale, particularize the war and speak to a wider public. — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, "The Numbing Familiarity of Searing Images From Syria," 3 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'particularize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for particularize
particularize
verb
English Language Learners Definition of particularize
formal
: to give specific details or examples of (something)
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