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Verb: externalize  ik'stur`n-lIz
  1. Regard as objective
    - project, externalise [Brit]
     
  2. Make external or objective, or give reality to
    "language externalizes our thoughts"
    - exteriorize, exteriorise [Brit], externalise [Brit], objectify

Derived forms: externalized, externalizing, externalizes

Type of: alter, ascribe, assign, attribute, change, impute, modify

Nearest

external organ
external orifice
external respiration
external storage
external-combustion engine
externalisation
externalise
externalism
externality
externalization
externalize
externally
exteroception
exteroceptive
exteroceptor
exterritorial
extinct
extinction
extinction angle
extinguish
extinguishable