🐕 To mix breeds 🔀 To mix styles

to mongrelize

9.9

To mix different methods and ideas to create a new approach

verb
/ˈmʌŋɡrəˌlaɪz/

: mezclar

To solve the problem, the team decided to mongrelize their approach by blending traditional and innovative techniques.

Examples

The company succeeded after it chose to mongrelize its approach to marketing, mixing digital and traditional strategies.
Some educators believe that to engage students, you must mongrelize the standard curriculum with creative methods.
We should mongrelize our approach to problem-solving.
The team mongrelized various strategies to improve efficiency.
The company succeeded after it chose to mongrelize its approach to marketing, mixing digital and traditional strategies.
Some educators believe that to engage students, you must mongrelize the standard curriculum with creative methods.
To solve the problem, the team decided to mongrelize their approach by blending traditional and innovative techniques.

Synonyms

to combine

vsto mongrelize

638 2.7

To mix two or more things into one

mix different elements with the explicit goal of creating diversity or improvement

to diversify

vsto mongrelize

63 5.3

To add different kinds of products or activities to reduce risk

mix different elements aiming to increase diversity and improve outcomes

to aggregate

vsto mongrelize

23 5.1

To collect things together to make one total

mix different elements specifically to increase variety or improve results

to amalgamate

vsto mongrelize

Formal

4 7.4

To join several groups or parts to make one

bring together varied elements while keeping emphasis on diversity and improvement

How Mixed

to hybridize

Specialized

3 7.0

to mongrelize

9.9

to blend

255 2.3

to combine

638 2.7

Surface Forms

mongrelize infinitive

mongrelized past

mongrelized past participle

mongrelizing present participle

mongrelizes third person singular

Morphology

mongrelize = mongrel (semi-transparent) = mongrel + ize

The verb is formed transparently from 'mongrel' + '-ize', but the sense is extended metaphorically to mixing methods or elements, so inference is plausible but not fully literal.

Etymology

Mongrelize comes from mongrel ('mixed-breed') and -ize ('to make'), and a helpful way to remember it is to think of mixing different kinds the same way you mix breeds. So to mongrelize a method or plan is to combine different parts to make it more varied or stronger.