totalize

especially British, to·tal·ise

[toht-l-ahyz]

verb (used with object)

totalized, totalizing 

1. to make total; combine into a total.

totalize

/ ˈtəʊtəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to combine or make into a total

Other Word Forms

• totalization noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of totalize¹

First recorded in 1810–20; total + -ize

Example Sentences

The only people for whom this is a “tough” message are the climate zealots who remain committed to the idea that rising temperatures are a totalizing emergency.

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What's most striking here is the totalizing theory detailed in Project 2025 that America is hopelessly "woke," and that most Americans have been consumed by what Vought and his ilk see as secular decadence.

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The rhetoric surrounding Trump’s bid has escalated significantly as his legal perils are totalizing.

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“They link them together in these super-conspiracy theories that are totalizing, and they give you an understanding of the world, a real us-versus-them thing,” he said.

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At the same time, when thinking about this concept of the end of the world, it’s not a totalizing event, it’s more of a spectrum of things that people experience.

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