particularize

verb

par·​tic·​u·​lar·​ize pər-ˈti-k(yə-)lə-ˌrīz 

pə-,

 also  pär-

particularized; particularizing

transitive verb

: to state in detail : specify

intransitive verb

: to go into details

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

Wagner works hard to particularize these women, but the play, which has over the years lost an intermission and been streamlined into one 95-minute act, has trouble getting started. —New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022

His Democratic opponent was quick to particularize the term for low-information voters: Barbour had lobbied not only for Big Oil, nuclear power plants, and some more-or-less savory foreign governments. —Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019

The Justice Department, which intervened on Trump’s behalf in New York, has taken a narrower approach, saying Vance must prove ‘‘particularized need’’ for the records before they are released to a grand jury. —BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1593, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Rhymes for particularize

• contextualize
• industrialize
• materialise
• materialize
• memorialize
• microenterprise
• overemphasize
• revolutionise
• revolutionize
• actualize
• antagonize
• apologise

Kids Definition

particularize

verb

par·​tic·​u·​lar·​ize pə(r)-ˈtik-(yə-)lə-ˌrīz 

particularized; particularizing

: to state in detail : specify

particularization

-ˌtik-(yə-)lə-rə-ˈzā-shən

noun