transitivize

Definitions of transitivize
  1. verb
    make transitive
    “adding `out' to many verbs transitivizes them”
    synonyms: transitivise
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    antonyms:
    detransitivize
    intransitivize
    type of:
    alter, change, modify
    cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
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