Rhyme Dictionary

Rhymes with “Sterilize”

♬68 rhyming words found

🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Sterilize"

50 words

These words rhyme exactly with "sterilize" — 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).
optimize	3	verb	(transitive) To make (something) optimal.
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.

🎵 Near Rhymes for "Sterilize"

18 words

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

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
amplify	3	verb	(transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
clarify	3	verb	(by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.
satisfied	3		In a state of satisfaction.
paradise	3	noun	(figuratively) A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.
parasite	3	noun	(biology) An organism that lives on or in another organism of a different species, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
verify	3	verb	(transitive) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something.
alive	2		Having life; living; not dead.
verified	3	noun	(Internet slang) A user of the Twitter microblogging service whose identity has been confirmed by Twitter.
survive	2	verb	(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
paralyzed	3		Partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled.
sanitized	3		Having been disinfected and cleaned of microorganisms.
terrify	3	verb	To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
pluralize	3	verb	(transitive, grammar) To make plural.
sterilized	3		Rendered free from microorganisms and spores.
tonight	2	noun	During the night following the current day; during the evening of today.
goodbye	2	noun	To say goodbye; to wish somebody farewell on parting.
televised	3		Broadcast by television.
erinyes	3	noun	(Greek mythology) The Furies; the goddesses of vengeance against serious moral offence (such as oath-breaking), latterly known as protectors of Athens, of pre-Olympian origin and variously described as having sprung from the spilled blood of Uranus or as daughters of Nyx; identified with the Roman Dirae.