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-izes

-izes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of -ize.

-izes is the plural 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

Origin of -izes

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about -izes

What is -izes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
-izes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of -ize.

Words near -izes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -izes (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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