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harmonize
[ hahr-muh-nahyz ]
verb (used with object)
- to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement:
to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
Synonyms: ,
- Music. to accompany with appropriate harmony.
verb (used without object)
- to be in agreement in action, sense, or feeling:
Though of different political parties, all the delegates harmonized on civil rights.
Synonyms: ,
- to sing in harmony.
harmonize
/ ˈɑːəˌԲɪ /
verb
- to make or become harmonious
- tr music to provide a harmony for (a melody, tune, etc)
- intr to sing in harmony, as with other singers
- to collate parallel narratives
Derived Forms
- ˈˌԾ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- m·Ծa· adjective
- m·Ծ·tDz noun
- m·Ծe noun
- ·m·Ծ verb (used with object) reharmonized reharmonizing
- ܲ·m·Ծ verb (used with object) unharmonized unharmonizing
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of harmonize1
Example Sentences
Orff wrote the piece in Germany during the Nazi regime, and it was very popular with the Nazis — harmonizing uncomfortably well with their testosterone-fueled propaganda.
She harmonizes while he sketches out a new song called “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
“We fight through the dark together / our future is bright,” they harmonize, keeping their backs as straight as a church choir.
In “Luther” she harmonizes with Lamar about selfless love and, in the album’s closing track “Gloria,” she adds moving vocals to the rapper’s ode to writing.
All of these dehumanizing policies were sold under the banner of “science” and harmonized with the nation’s racist fears of criminally inferior people.
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