1. To bring things into agreement or compatibility.
2. To combine or accompany musical notes or parts in harmony.
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Words that belong together
- harmonize standards
- harmonize procedures
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The institutions harmonized their standards while retaining different schedules.
The revision harmonized the procedures with the reporting requirement.
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Word forms
- Base
- harmonize
- Past tense
- harmonized
- Past participle
- harmonized
- Present participle
- harmonizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- harmonize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are harmonizing
- Present perfect
- have/has harmonized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been harmonizing
- Past
- harmonized
- Past continuous
- was/were harmonizing
- Past perfect
- had harmonized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been harmonizing
- Future
- will harmonize
- Future continuous
- will be harmonizing
- Future perfect
- will have harmonized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been harmonizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: harmonize; harmonizes; harmonized; harmonized; harmonizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: renewed assessment, explicit formulation, classification and framing. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: harmonizes.
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