lemmatize

/ˈlɛmətaɪz/
verb
  1. To group together the inflected forms of a word under a single base form (lemma), especially in computational linguistics or dictionary-making.
    • The software can lemmatize all verb forms so they appear under 'be'.
    • The search engine uses an algorithm to lemmatize user queries.
    • To build the dictionary, we had to lemmatize thousands of words.
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