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dynamize

American  
[dahy-nuh-mahyz] / ˈdaɪ nəˌmaɪz /
especially British, dynamise

verb (used with object)

dynamized, dynamizing
  1. 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

Example Sentences

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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

“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

The showing of the National Front, which won six of 13 regions, will dynamize leader Marine Le Pen’s planned bid for the presidency in 2017.

From Washington Post

The showing of the National Front — which won six of 13 regions — will dynamize leader Marine Le Pen's planned bid for the presidency in 2017.

From US News

“To dynamize New Yorkers who sit and watch this happen around them.”

From New York Times