internalize

• internalise (non-Oxford British English)

From internal + -ize.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɝnəlaɪz/

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internalize (third-person singular simple present internalizes, present participle internalizing, simple past and past participle internalized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (transitive) To make something internal; to incorporate it in oneself.

   You are not going to get good at socialising by approaching social situations like it's a formula where you do 1, 2 and 3 from a book, but books can definitely help you internalize useful things if you get what I'm saying.

   1. To process new information in one's mind.
   2. To refrain from expressing (a negative emotion), to one's psychological detriment; to bottle up.
      • 1979, Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman, Manhattan, spoken by Isaac (Woody Allen), United Artists:

        Well, I can't get angry, okay? I mean, I have a tendency to internalize. I can't express anger. That's one of the problems I have—I grow a tumor instead.

2. (transitive, programming) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance.

   Synonym: intern

3. (finance) To transfer stocks between brokers within an organization, rather than through the exchange.

• “internalize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

internalize

1. inflection of internalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative