harmonize

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harmonize

  • /ˈhɑː.mə.naɪz/ UK
  • /ˈhɑɹ.mə.naɪz/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)mənaɪz

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From French harmoniser. By surface analysis, harmony + -ize.

verb harmonizes · harmonizing · harmonized · harmonise

  1. intransitive To be in harmonious agreement. This explanation of the clan totem harmonizes with the supposed effect of killing one of the totem species.
  2. intransitive To play or sing in harmony.
  3. transitive To provide parts to.
  4. transitive To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible; to reconcile; juggle. The flagrant contradiction between the two accounts is explained very simply by the circumstance that they are derived from two different and originally independent documents, which were afterwards combined into a single book by an editor, who pieced the two narratives together without always taking
  5. transitive To provide the harmony for a melody.

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