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alphabetizing

alphabetizing is the present participle and gerund of alphabetize.

Meaning of alphabetize

Verb

alphabetize (third-person singular simple present alphabetizes, present participle alphabetizing, simple past and past participle alphabetized)

  1. (Canada, US, transitive) To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.
    • It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.

Questions about alphabetizing

What is alphabetizing the present participle and gerund of?
Alphabetizing is the present participle and gerund of alphabetize.

Words near alphabetizing in the dictionary

  1. alphabetize
  2. alphabetized
  3. alphabetizer
  4. alphabetizers
  5. alphabetizes
  6. alphabetizing
  7. alphabetlike
  8. alphabetological
  9. alphabetologist
  10. alphabetologists
  11. alphabetology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alphabetizing (page history and authors); alphabetize (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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