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apostrophise

apostrophise is the alternative spelling of apostrophize.

Meaning of apostrophize

Verb

apostrophize (third-person singular simple present apostrophizes, present participle apostrophizing, simple past and past participle apostrophized)

  1. (transitive) To deliver an apostrophe (a speech, typically exclamatory) to someone, especially someone not present in person as a participant in the conversation, even someone imaginary.
    • [S]he resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent hand-maidens, without even appearing sensible of his presence.1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], “The Guest”, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst...
  2. To add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters.

Forms of apostrophise

third-person singular presentapostrophises
present participleapostrophising
past participleapostrophised
pastapostrophised

Origin of apostrophise

From apostrophe + -ise.

Questions about apostrophise

What is apostrophise the alternative spelling of?
Apostrophise is the alternative spelling of apostrophize.

Words near apostrophise in the dictionary

  1. apostrophically
  2. apostrophied
  3. apostrophies
  4. apostrophisation
  5. apostrophisations
  6. apostrophise
  7. apostrophised
  8. apostrophises
  9. apostrophising
  10. apostrophization
  11. apostrophizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apostrophise (page history and authors); apostrophize (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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