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Generalise

verb
1.
Speak or write in generalities.  Synonym: generalize.
2.
Draw from specific cases for more general cases.  Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer.
3.
Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use.  Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize.  "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
4.
Become systemic and spread throughout the body.  Synonym: generalize.



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"Generalise" Quotes from Famous Books



... talked, realising and giving expression to both the pathos and the comedy of her story. Then, feeling that she wasdigressing at too great length, she strove to generalise from the particular incident which she had related, and get back to the theme ...
— Spring Days • George Moore

... at it all as dispassionately as one looks at a picture—at some wonderful, perfect sort of picture that is inexhaustible; but at the time these things filled me with unspeakable resentment. Now I go round it all, look into its details, generalise about its aspects. I'm interested, for example, to square it with my Bladesover theory of the British social scheme. Under stress of tradition we were all of us trying in the fermenting chaos of London to carry out ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Generalise" :   extrapolate, distribute, circularize, diffuse, speak, circulate, verbalise, utter, overgeneralize, mouth, propagate, universalise, talk, generalisation, infer, reason out, spread, disperse, verbalize, broadcast, circularise, disseminate, specify, conclude, universalize, reason, pass around



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