singularizes
Reduces to one
Singularizes means makes singular or treats as a single unit.
In grammar, to singularize is to convert a plural form to its singular: singularizing "children" yields "child." More broadly, it means to distinguish or set apart as unique: The author singularizes each character through distinctive speech patterns.
The word appears most often in technical or academic contexts.
Makes more efficient
- reducesMakes less in quantity
- distillsPurifies through vaporization
- condensesReduces to essentials
- focusesConcentrates attention on
narrows · isolates · concentrates · pinpoints · specifies · particularizes · individualizes · distinguishes
Word form alteration
- conjugationVerb form variation system
- declensionNoun form variation
- verbAction-expressing word
- nounWord naming something
tense · number · agreement · subject · third-person · plural · form · morpheme
streamlines
Makes more efficient
focuses · narrows · isolates · concentrates · pinpoints · specifies · particularizes · individualizes · distinguishes · separates
inflection
Word form alteration
- conjugationVerb form variation system
- declensionNoun form variation
- verbAction-expressing word
noun · tense · number · agreement · subject · third-person · plural · form · morpheme · suffix
singularizespluralizes
Makes grammatically multiple
pluralizing · multiplies · generalizes · aggregates · groups