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  • verb (Psychology) Same as internalize.

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  • verb UK Alternative spelling of internalize.

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  • verb incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal

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Examples

  • Bini Smaghi said each euro zone country should "internalise" changes on its own.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • Bini Smaghi said each euro zone country should "internalise" changes on its own.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • Zuma would be the president to "internalise" the fact.

    IOL: News 2010

  • To get it right, you need to look up the rules every time you think an apostrophe might be needed - and do this for the next six months in order to 'internalise' the rules. "

    The Register 2008

  • Instead one is broken down, forced to feel something, to learn something, about the author, forced to internalise his experiences.

    Pulse by Julian Barnes - review 2011

  • And also about not wanting to internalise pre-set patterns (much as they might be interesting to read about.)

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Do What Works 2009

  • The conference topic was internalised oppression, so we spent a lot of time in identity caucus groups trying to explore the ways in which we internalise various - ist messages.

    a weekend without white people. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2010

  • Other people manage the tension of oncoming defeat by ranting and raving at the screen; me, I prefer to internalise all that emotion until the suppressed screams are coursing around my bloodstream, the adrenaline in my mouth tastes of almonds, and I'm clutching at my chest like someone in the throes of the Five Pointed Palm Exploding Heart Technique.

    Pain of watching sport that I will never die happy | Emma John 2011

  • Children, she says, grow up to serve in the army and internalise the message that Palestinians are people whose life is dispensable with impunity.

    Academic claims Israeli school textbooks contain bias 2011

  • A study by Mitchell and Martin (1997) on secondary school children learning French in the UK found that the children “who did not internalise and retain a corpus of phrases of this kind, at this early stage, were highly unlikely to make any real progress subsequently, and in particular were never seen to move on from pragmatic communication strategies to grammatical control”.

    S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT 2010

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