suffix [in verbs]
[Language: Old French;Origin: -iser, from Late Latin -izare, from Greek -izein]
to make something have more of a particular quality
　We need to modernize our procedures. (=make them more modern)
　Americanized spelling (=spelling made more American)
　privatized transport (=bus or train services that are owned and operated by private companies)
to change something to something else, or be changed to something else
　The liquid crystallized. (=turned intocrystals)
to speak or think in the way mentioned
　to soliloquize (=speak asoliloquy, to yourself)
　I sat and listened to him sermonizing. (=speaking solemnly, as if in asermon)
to put into a particular place
　She was hospitalized after the accident.