MEANING
To arrange information, ideas, or practices into an ordered system or method.
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Words that belong together
- systematize records
- systematize a procedure
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She systematized the records before reconstructing the chronology.
They systematized the procedure after repeated failures.
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Word forms
- Base
- systematize
- Past tense
- systematized
- Past participle
- systematized
- Present participle
- systematizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- systematize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are systematizing
- Present perfect
- have/has systematized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been systematizing
- Past
- systematized
- Past continuous
- was/were systematizing
- Past perfect
- had systematized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been systematizing
- Future
- will systematize
- Future continuous
- will be systematizing
- Future perfect
- will have systematized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been systematizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: systematize; systematizes; systematized; systematized; systematizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: systematizes.
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