Rhyme Dictionary

Rhymes with “Optimize”

♬75 rhyming words found

🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Optimize"

50 words

These words rhyme exactly with "optimize" — same ending sound.

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
scrutinize	3	verb	(transitive) To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.
surmise	2	verb	(intransitive) To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
aggrandize	3	verb	(transitive) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.).
emphasize	3	verb	(transitive) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
recognize	3	verb	(transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
actualize	4	verb	(transitive) To make real; to realize.
analyze	3	verb	(transitive) To subject to analysis.
reprise	2	noun	(music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
comprise	2	verb	(transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
likewise	2		(conjunctive) also; moreover; too.
demise	2	noun	(countable) Death; decease.
rise	1	noun	(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
chastise	2	verb	(transitive) To castigate; to scold or censure.
apprise	2	verb	To make (someone or oneself) aware of some information; to inform, to notify.
despise	2	verb	To regard with contempt or scorn.
devise	2	verb	(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
utilize	3	verb	(US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise. [To make use of; to use.]
exemplifies	4	verb	(transitive) To show or illustrate by example.
arise	2	verb	(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
advise	2	verb	(transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
realize	3	verb	(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
ostracize	3	verb	(by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
jeopardize	3	verb	(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
materialize	5	verb	(intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
wise	1	noun	Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
patronize	3	verb	(transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.
criticize	3	verb	To find fault (with something).
sympathize	3	verb	(intransitive) To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected
empathize	3	verb	(intransitive) to feel empathy for another person
compromise	3	noun	The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
disguise	2	noun	Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
signifies	3	verb	To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
galvanize	3	verb	(figurative) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.
maximize	3	verb	(transitive) To make as large as possible.
prise	1	noun	To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
characterize	4	verb	(transitive) To be typical of.
synthesize	3	verb	(transitive) To combine two or more things to produce a new product.
exercise	3	noun	(countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
tantalize	3	verb	(transitive) To tease (someone) by offering or showing them something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.
supervise	3	verb	(transitive) To oversee or direct a task or organization.
prize	1	noun	An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
organize	3	verb	(transitive) To arrange in working order.
minimize	3	verb	(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
mobilize	3	verb	(transitive) To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.
sunrise	2	noun	The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
catalyze	3	verb	(transitive) To accelerate a process.
prioritize	4	verb	(transitive) To value, do, or choose something first, or before other things.
crystallize	3	verb	(transitive) To give a definite or precise form to (something).
lionize	3	verb	(transitive) To treat (a person) as if they were important, or a celebrity.
capitalize	4	verb	(transitive) In writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case.

🎵 Near Rhymes for "Optimize"

25 words

These words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
concubine	3	noun	A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
identify	4	verb	(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
design	2	noun	A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
occupied	3		Reserved; engaged.
mesmerized	3		Spellbound or enthralled.
occupy	3	verb	To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
assign	2	verb	(transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
inspire	2	verb	(transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
streamline	2	verb	(transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
alive	2		Having life; living; not dead.
decide	2	verb	(ambitransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
qualify	3	verb	To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
modify	3	verb	(transitive) To change part of.
survive	2	verb	(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
ostracise	3	verb	Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of ostracize. [(transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.]
simplify	3	verb	(transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
quantified	3		Measured.
multiply	3	verb	(transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
diversify	4	verb	(transitive, intransitive) To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.
optimise	3	verb	Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of optimize. [(originally intransitive) To act optimistically or as an optimist.]
obelize	3	verb	To mark (a written or printed passage) with an obelus; to judge as spurious or doubtful.
oxidise	3	verb	(British spelling) Alternative spelling of oxidize. [(chemistry, transitive) To combine with oxygen or otherwise make an oxide.]
opsonize	3	verb	(transitive) To make (bacteria or other cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes by use of opsonins.
gemini	3	noun	(astrology) The zodiac sign for the twins, ruled by Mercury and covering May 22 – June 21 (tropical astrology) or June 16 – July 15 (sidereal astrology).
hop inside	3		—