Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb generalise

4 senses of generalise

Sense 1
generalize, generalise -- (speak or write in generalities)
       => talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")

Sense 2
generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer -- (draw from specific cases for more general cases)
       => reason, reason out, conclude -- (decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house")

Sense 3
popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise -- (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors")
       => circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around -- (cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news")

Sense 4
generalize, generalise -- (become systemic and spread throughout the body; "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system")
       => spread, distribute -- (distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country")