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-ized

-ized is the simple past and past participle of -ize.

Meaning of -ize

Suffix

-ize (verb-forming suffix, third-person singular simple present -izes, present participle -izing, simple past and past participle -ized)

  1. to make what is denoted by the noun/adjective
    • pixel + -ize → pixelize
  2. to do what is denoted by the noun/adjective
    • cannibal + -ize → cannibalize

Questions about -ized

What is -ized the simple past and past participle of?
-ized is the simple past and past participle of -ize.

Words near -ized in the dictionary

  1. -ive
  2. -iz-
  3. -ization
  4. -izations
  5. -ize
  6. -ized
  7. -izer
  8. -izes
  9. -izine
  10. -izing
  11. -izz-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ized (page history and authors); -ize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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