Synonyms

dynamize

American

[dahy-nuh-mahyz] / ˈdaɪ nəˌmaɪz /

especially British, dynamise

verb (used with object)

dynamized, dynamizing

to make more active, productive, or the like; energize.

an attempt to dynamize the local economy.

Other Word Forms

dynamization

noun

Etymology

Origin of dynamize

First recorded in 1880–85; dynam(ic) + -ize

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dynamized dynamizing

The French Revolution then dynamited Europe’s old order and dynamized society as a collective organism, evolving in a “quasi-biological and determinate way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

“I was no longer working in black but working with the light reflected by the surface of the black. The light was dynamized by the strokes of paint. It was another world.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022

Halfway down, the flat planes of the leaning sidewalls crack into a tessellated field of triangles that reflect light, activating the surfaces and dynamizing the shape.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2016

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