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# normalise

«normalise» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make something seem normal or ordinary, so people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (normalise, normalises, normalised, normalising)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make something seem normal or ordinary, so people accept it, as in "normalise talking about feelings". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#m1)

2) To return something to a normal state, as in "relations normalised". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#m2)

3) (maths, science) To change numbers to a standard scale so they can be compared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in PSHE ("We want to normalise asking for help"; "Don't normalise bullying"), in news about countries making peace (normalise relations), and in science and data, where values are scaled so they can be compared fairly.

### examples

- We should normalise talking about mental health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#x1)
- Laughing at bullying normalises it, which is wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#x2)
- After the storm, life slowly normalised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#x3)
- The two countries agreed to normalise relations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#x4)
- Scientists normalise the results so they can compare them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#x5)
- Her temperature normalised after the medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#x6)
- Some games normalise violence, critics say. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/#x7)

### note

UK, Australia, NZ spelling "normalise"; US and Canada "normalize". Noun "normalisation". "Normalise" can be good (normalise asking for help) or bad (normalise cruelty).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «normalise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/normalise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.