verb
1. become normal or return to its normal state
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Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon
• Syn: ↑normalize
• Hypernyms: ↑change
• Verb Group: ↑normalize, ↑renormalize, ↑renormalise
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
2. make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
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normalize relations with China
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normalize the temperature
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normalize the spelling
• Syn: ↑normalize, ↑renormalize, ↑renormalise
• Derivationally related forms: ↑normalisation, ↑normaliser, ↑normalization (for: ↑normalize), ↑normalizer (for: ↑normalize)
• Verb Group: ↑normalize
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Something ——s something
Useful english dictionary. 2012.