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alternizing

alternizing is the present participle and gerund of alternize.

Meaning of alternize

Verb

alternize (third-person singular simple present alternizes, present participle alternizing, simple past and past participle alternized)

  1. To alternate or take turns.
    • From a sketch of the weather, taken at Galway, in 1789, it appears that the north-west winds were most prevalent there from January to August; that the storms and squalls from north-west, and those from south-west and south, were on an equality in number; and that the north-west and south-east...1804, William Patterson, Observations on the Climate of Ireland, pages 162–163

Questions about alternizing

What is alternizing the present participle and gerund of?
Alternizing is the present participle and gerund of alternize.

Words near alternizing in the dictionary

  1. alternities
  2. alternity
  3. alternize
  4. alternized
  5. alternizes
  6. alternizing
  7. alterobactin
  8. alterobactins
  9. alterocentric
  10. alteromonad
  11. alteromonads

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