"formalize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nEnglish formal\nProto-Indo-European *-id-\nProto-Indo-European *-yéti\nProto-Indo-European *-idyéti\nProto-Hellenic *-íďďō\nAncient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.\nLate Latin -izōder.\nMiddle French -iserbor.\nMiddle English -isen\nEnglish -ize\nEnglish formalize\nFrom formal + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "formalizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "formalizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "formalized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "formalized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "formalise",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "formalize (third-person singular simple present formalizes, present participle formalizing, simple past and past participle formalized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give something a definite form; to shape."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ],
        [
          "shape",
          "shape"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To give something a definite form; to shape."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              143,
              152
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1984 February 4, Marsha Levine, “Pride '84”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 5:",
          "text": "We have more fun and exciting fundraisers planned, and we're trying to carefully budget them so they don't cut into your life savings. As they formalize, we'll widely publicize these events.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To develop into a definite form."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To develop into a definite form."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To give something a formal or official standing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "formal",
          "formal"
        ],
        [
          "official",
          "official"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To act with formality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "formality",
          "formality"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Mathematics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To rigorously prove a mathematical result."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mathematics) To rigorously prove a mathematical result."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɔɹ.məlaɪːz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɔː(ɹ).mə.laɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)məlaɪz"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "ofórmjam",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "офо́рмям"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "formalitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "formgive"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "formi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "muotoilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "formalisoida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "muodollistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "formaliser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "formalizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "formalizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "word": "formalizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "formalizuváty",
      "sense": "to give something a definite form",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "формалізува́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "formaliziram",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "формализирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "formalitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "formalisere"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "formaligi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "vahvistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "virallistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "formaalistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "muodollistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "formalizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "lang_code": "kk",
      "roman": "resmilendıru",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "ресмилендіру"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "formalizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "formalizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "to give something formal or official standing",
      "word": "formalisera"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "formaliziram se",
      "sense": "to act with formality",
      "word": "формализирам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to act with formality",
      "word": "toimia muodollisesti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to act with formality",
      "tags": [
        "pronominal"
      ],
      "word": "formalizar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "formalize"
}