systematize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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resystematizationnoun
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systematizationnoun
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systematizernoun
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oversystematizeverb (used with object)
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resystematizeverb (used with object)
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nonsystematizedadjective
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quasi-systematizedadjective
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unsystematizedadjective
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unsystematizingadjective
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well-systematizedadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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systematizesimple
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systematizessimple
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have systematizedperfect
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has systematizedperfect
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am systematizingprogressive
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are systematizingprogressive
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is systematizingprogressive
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have been systematizingperfect progressive
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has been systematizingperfect progressive
Past
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systematizedsimple
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had systematizedperfect
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was systematizingprogressive
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were systematizingprogressive
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had been systematizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of systematize
Explanation
To systematize is to organize things into coherent groups or according to a specific plan. If cleaning your room feels overwhelming, you should systematize the job, breaking it down into orderly steps first. Whenever you arrange or organize something with a system in mind, you're systematizing. Math teachers systematize the subject before attempting to explain it to students, sorting concepts into an order that makes sense and organizing lessons so they gradually increase in difficulty. To teach your dog to shake your hand with his paw, you first need to systematize your training, starting with "sit," and working your way methodically toward your goal.
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Example Sentences
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“The CEO’s attention flits onto something else, and they never systematize the change,” Sigelman said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Home economics started out as a way to systematize how you kept house so you did it as efficiently as possible.
From Salon ● May 9, 2021
“He said at some point some genius would arise who would know how to systematize color, but until then you have to use your intuition.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2020
For years we’ve opted not to make a massive public investment in elder care, or to systematize and formalize the ad hoc system it has created.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2020
His efforts to systematize his premonitions were useless.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This is, after all, a country that systematizes: we create seminars on how to make friends, teach classes in grieving and make pet walking a profession.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I don't see that" "Well, I may be wrong, but my notion is that what systematizes a life is choice; and choice, I believe, means choice of what we hold to be good."
From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
The assigned task of the future systematizes the "stream of attention," and an orderly scheme of habits of thought is installed.
From The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste by Gilbreth, Lillian Moller
It's all right to plan your work; that's economy in mental expenditure, for it simplifies, systematizes, and saves work.
From Think A Book for To-day by Hunter, Col. Wm. C.
Conscience, thus, differs from moral science, which, though it systematizes the body of conclusions drawn from the natural and positive laws, is not able to make the applications for the innumerable cases that arise.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
As industrialization boomed across the world, time became standardized and systematized to meet the deadlines of false daylight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
In the 1980s, the city chose to divest from apartheid South Africa in a display of opposition to systematized racial segregation, and council members voted to support Ukraine last year during the Russian invasion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
This dialogue is the first part of a diagnostic interview between a psychiatrist and a patient who has systematized delusions of persecution.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2023
Philosophers offer systematized accounts of morality that provide standards and norms of right conduct.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
After the invention of the fact, testimony could be approached with a form of systematized distrust.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
“We are systematizing a lot of things,” Capt. Yoshihiro Iwata, 44, said when the frigate was docked recently in Sasebo, in southwestern Japan.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
I think about, “How do I create these businesses so that they have great leadership? Am I doing enough mentoring or enough systematizing of my own brain?”
From The Verge ● Aug. 2, 2022
“Although with her departure a wealth of especially valuable empirical knowledge is lost in linguistic terms, the possibility of rescuing and systematizing the language remain open,” she said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 17, 2022
He is credited with revolutionizing the celebrity security industry, inventing methods to evaluate the likelihood of threats, and rigorously systematizing security protocols.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2019
So Athens became the center of a burgeoning rhetoric industry, and with that came an increasing interest in systematizing the art.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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