homogenize
verb (used with object)
to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
homogenized
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past participleof homogenize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof homogenize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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Led by Busby’s machine-gun mandolin riffs and hair-raising tenor, the band had a hard-edged bluegrass-style sound that was a far cry from the homogenized, syrupy country-and-western slop heard around town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“He was looking for a way to expand what he was doing and not just be a commercial, pasteurized, homogenized milk provider.”
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
The biggest question about the new model, Canup says, is whether material from the impact could “avoid being mixed and homogenized into the Earth’s mantle over the next four and a half billion years.”
From National Geographic ● Nov. 1, 2023
Don’t say huh-MODJ-uh-nus, a mispronunciation no doubt influenced by the word homogenized or the less familiar homogenous.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
