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adularizing

adularizing is the present participle and gerund of adularize.

Meaning of adularize

Verb

adularize (third-person singular simple present adularizes, present participle adularizing, simple past and past participle adularized)

  1. to gain or be replaced by adularia
    • At some localities the sanidite is adularizing.1875, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. F. V. Hayden, Geologist-in-charge, page 153

Questions about adularizing

What is adularizing the present participle and gerund of?
Adularizing is the present participle and gerund of adularize.

Words near adularizing in the dictionary

  1. adularias
  2. adularization
  3. adularize
  4. adularized
  5. adularizes
  6. adularizing
  7. adulate
  8. adulated
  9. adulates
  10. adulating
  11. adulation

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