particularize

American  

[per-tik-yuh-luh-rahyz, puh-tik-] / pərˈtɪk yə ləˌraɪz, pəˈtɪk- /

especially British, particularise

verb (used with object)

particularized, particularizing

1. to make particular.

2. to mention or indicate specifically; specify.

3. to state or treat in detail.

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verb (used without object)

particularized, particularizing

1. to speak or treat particularly or specifically.

particularize British  

/ pəˈtɪkjʊləˌraɪz /

verb

1. to treat in detail; give details (about)

2. (intr) to go into detail

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Other Word Forms

• particularization noun
• particularizer noun
• unparticularized adjective
• unparticularizing adjective

Etymology

Origin of particularize

From the Middle French word particulariser, dating back to 1580–90. See particular, -ize

Example Sentences

The affidavit for a search warrant must particularize the federal statute that law enforcement believes has been broken by the subject.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2022

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.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2022

Photojournalists have deployed a familiar toolbox of artful devices to distill these panoramas of destruction down to human scale, particularize the war and speak to a wider public.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2018

Of course, the real art lies in the superstructure, in how Sophocles, Fitzgerald and Tolkien particularize this general archetype and make it into something fresh and uniquely their own.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2016

At this point of our conversation, Middleton repeated to me a remark of Dr. Kirby's—which I will not particularize further than to say that it contained the Kirbyly coined word—oatmealish.

From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore