generalize

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To reduce to a general form, class, or law.
2. v. To render indefinite or unspecific.
3. v. To infer from many particulars.
4. v. To draw inferences or a general conclusion from.
5. v. To make generally or universally applicable.
6. v. To popularize.
7. v. To form a concept inductively.
8. v. To form general notions or conclusions.
9. v. To deal in generalities; speak or write vaguely.
10. v. Medicine To spread through the body. Used of a usually localized disease.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To render general; make more general; bring under a general description or notion; treat or apply generically.
2. To infer inductively, as a general rule from a particular case or set of facts.
3. In mathematics, to modify, as a proposition, so as to obtain a wider proposition from which the former can be immediately deduced. See generalization, 3
4. To recognize that two or more objects have a common character; to form a general notion.
5. To reason inductively, from particular cases to general rules comprehending those cases.
6. Also spelled generalise.
7. In painting, to render large and typical characteristics rather than details.

Wiktionary

1. v. To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
2. v. To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
3. v. To spread throughout the body and become systemic.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
2. v. To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.
3. v. To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
4. v. To speak in generalities; to talk in abstract terms.
5. v. To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. become systemic and spread throughout the body
2. v. draw from specific cases for more general cases
3. v. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
4. v. speak or write in generalities