Definition of "particularize" [par•tic•u•lar•ize]

• To mention, describe, or treat individually; itemize or specify. (verb-transitive)
• To make particular as opposed to general or universal. (verb-transitive)
• To go into or give details or particulars. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Mr. Echenoz employs a similar finesse to particularize moments that are conspicuously irrelevant or ridiculous."
• "That this is the perfect approach to an event that has become fetishized in our culture should go without saying: Tomine's point is not to play into or even against perceptions about marriage so much as to particularize his account."
• "I am not permitted to particularize, and may only say that the dislike of readers is just as I said it would be, and that dislike expresst without reserve to me, and of course to those who own the other half of the property."