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adulterizes

adulterizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of adulterize.

Meaning of adulterize

Verb

adulterize (third-person singular simple present adulterizes, present participle adulterizing, simple past and past participle adulterized)

  1. (intransitive, largely obsolete) To commit adultery.
    • ca 1644, John Milton, "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce", Book II, Chap. 18.
      Nevertheleſs, as I find that Grotius on this place hath obſerved the Chriſtian emperors, Theodoſius the IId and Juſtinian, men of high wiſdom and reputed piety, decreed it to be a divorcive fornication, if the wife...
  2. (ambitransitive, uncommon) To adulterate.

Questions about adulterizes

What is adulterizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Adulterizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of adulterize.

Words near adulterizes in the dictionary

  1. adulterised
  2. adulterises
  3. adulterising
  4. adulterize
  5. adulterized
  6. adulterizes
  7. adulterizing
  8. adulterous
  9. adulterously
  10. adulterousness
  11. adulters

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