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agrize

agrize is the alternative form of agrise.

Meaning of agrise

Verb

agrise (third-person singular simple present agrises, present participle agrising, simple past and past participle agrised)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified.
    • And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize,
      That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make tremble, to terrify.

Forms of agrize

third-person singular presentagrizes
present participleagrizing
past participleagrized
pastagrized

Questions about agrize

What is agrize the alternative form of?
Agrize is the alternative form of agrise.

Words near agrize in the dictionary

  1. agritourists
  2. agriturismo
  3. agriturismos
  4. agrivoltaic
  5. agrivoltaics
  6. agrize
  7. agrized
  8. agrizes
  9. agrizing
  10. agrizoophobia
  11. Agriș

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agrize (page history and authors); agrise (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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