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What is the verb for intelligence?

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intellectualize
  1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually.
  2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
  3. (US) to find a seemingly rational explanation for something:
    1. (psychology) to use (excessive) reasoning and rationalization to block out emotional stress and anxiety associated with painful or traumatic experiences
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I could easily intellectualize the tragedy by arguing that the U.S. had provoked it.”
      “I think these questions and the temptation to over intellectualize the installation are an unfortunate distraction.”
      “It's one thing to theorize and intellectualize about such things, but very difficult to realize that it actually can happen.”
intellectualise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of intellectualize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “However, let it be known that I'm not merely trying to snobbishly intellectualise things.”
      “So I think the attempts to try and intellectualise about the game are misjudged.”
      “Often I have a gut feeling about something or somebody, but I think a lot of people have a tendency to intellectualise too much.”
intellectualises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intellectualise
intellectualizes
intellectualized
intellectualised
intellectualising
  1. present participle of intellectualise
intellectualizing
  1. present participle of intellectualize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But I am intellectualizing this book, which can only give you the experience of dislocation viscerally, through the flow of its language.”
      “No amount of intellectualizing can distract him from the memory of his beloved's legs, face, and eyes.”
      “So we are invited to relish the very excesses of a Goering, to excruciate in the intellectualizing of a Speer, and to be appalled by the evidence presented.”
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