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generalise

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v.1.same as generalize.
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Verb1.generalise - speak or write in generalities
mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
2.generalise - draw from specific cases for more general cases
conclude, reason, reason out - decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"
overgeneralise, overgeneralize - draw too general a conclusion; "It is dangerous to overgeneralize"
universalise, universalize - make universal; "This author's stories universalize old themes"
3.generalise - cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
popularise, popularize - make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
disseminate, pass around, circulate, diffuse, broadcast, circularise, circularize, spread, disperse, propagate, distribute - cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
4.generalise - become systemic and spread throughout the body; "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system"
spread, distribute - distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country"


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These are interrupted by essays that attempt to generalise, either by looking at other barriers--the US Mexico border fence--or by theorising, with the help of such as Levi Straus and the Internet.
A secondary aim was to provide the youth with a range of supplementary experiences to generalise the program's goals beyond the immediate learning context.
Puis, avec le rejet generalise de la pretention d'Agassiz d'avoir decouvert des depots glaciaires en Amazonie en 1866, l'idde a ete oubliee.
 
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