1. To adapt something separately to an individual or individual case.
2. To make or identify something as distinct and individual.
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Words that belong together
- individualize instruction
- individualize an assessment
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The teacher individualized instruction without changing the common objective.
The panel individualized the assessment to account for relevant differences.
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Word forms
- Base
- individualize
- Past tense
- individualized
- Past participle
- individualized
- Present participle
- individualizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- individualize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are individualizing
- Present perfect
- have/has individualized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been individualizing
- Past
- individualized
- Past continuous
- was/were individualizing
- Past perfect
- had individualized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been individualizing
- Future
- will individualize
- Future continuous
- will be individualizing
- Future perfect
- will have individualized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been individualizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: individualize; individualizes; individualized; individualized; individualizing 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: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: individualizes.
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