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Alphabetize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet. Canada, US, transitive

    "It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames."

  2. 2
    arrange in alphabetical order wordnet
  3. 3
    provide with an alphabet wordnet

Etymology

From alphabet(ical) + -ize.

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