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What is the verb for external?

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externalize
  1. To make something external or objective
  2. To represent something abstract or intangible as material; to embody
  3. (psychology) To attribute emotions etc to external circumstances; to project
  4. (economics) To direct to others, as costs or benefits.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “A change of will can always manifest itself in action but it is very difficult to externalize convincingly a mere change of heart.”
      “If there are eventually technologies that externalize internal states, who has a right to access that information?”
      “Furthermore, it did not appear that the gender differences in depression were the result of men being more likely to externalize their anger.”
externalise
  1. Alternative spelling of externalize
  2. Examples:
    1. “The purpose of this strange ritual was to externalise one's grief, delegate it onto a kind of exterior apparatus.”
      “Since we are able to externalise our inner world, we are able to reflect upon that world and become self-aware or self-conscious.”
      “Women think of suicide more than men as women suffer more from depression but women are more likely to externalise their emotions than men.”
externalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of externalise
externalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of externalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Seeing your worry written out externalizes what you have been agonizing over.”
      “The Sahasrara or crown chakra is related to the pituitary gland and externalizes at the vertex of the scalp.”
      “By writing about her rape, Celie also externalizes her experiences so that they do not destroy her.”
externalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of externalise
externalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of externalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “That is, the costs of pollution are externalized, since the polluter does not have to include them in its production costs.”
      “These social and ecological costs are externalized and born by others who are excluded from such decisions and from their benefits.”
      “But the chaos in Lewis's film's internalized, whereas in Kiarostami's film it's completely externalized.”
externalising
  1. present participle of externalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The truth is, I've been externalising my inner self-hate through my disdain for all people and things geeky.”
      “And the director's objective of externalising the internal proves to be absolutely pivotal.”
externalizing
  1. present participle of externalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It's all aimed at getting the producers to stop externalizing the environmental costs of the products they design and profit from.”
      “Gould and Shatzy share a talent for telling stories, another coping mechanism for externalizing their fears.”
      “The 118-item scale assessed mothers' perceptions of internalizing and externalizing problems demonstrated by their children.”
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