capsulize

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verb

To enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

verbcapsulize (third-person singular simple present capsulizes, present participle capsulizing, simple past and past participle capsulized)

present singular third person capsulizes · participle present capsulizing · participle past capsulized · past capsulized

  1. To enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.

    Synonyms: capsulate

  2. figurativelyTo make into a concise form; to encapsulate.

    Four great sayings capsulize his message: […]

    1999, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Weaver's Wisdom, glossary entry for ‘Yogaswami’, page 289
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    Nothing is capsulized in me / On either side of town / The streets were never really mine / Not mine these glamour gowns

    1975, Joni Mitchell, “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing of Summer Lawns

    Radical academic Howard Zinn's quip that the U.S. is "always ready to kill people to protect them from communism" capsulized many presentations that examined U.S. international and domestic aggression (cloaked as jingoistic anti-terrorism) against progressive movments ^([sic]) and governments.

    1988 December 11, Wickie Stamps, “Cambridge Conference Chronicles Anticommunism”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 3

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo enclose (a medication etc) in a capsule.

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More synonyms by meaning

verbenclose in a capsule

verbput in a short or concise form; reduce in volume

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

capsulize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capsulize

MLA

“capsulize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capsulize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “capsulize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capsulize.

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