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archaized

archaized is the simple past and past participle of archaize.

Meaning of archaize

Verb

archaize (third-person singular simple present archaizes, present participle archaizing, simple past and past participle archaized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To give an archaic quality or character to; make archaic, to suggest the past.
    • The statue had an archaized quality to it.
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To speak, write, etc. in an archaic manner.

Questions about archaized

What is archaized the simple past and past participle of?
Archaized is the simple past and past participle of archaize.

Words near archaized in the dictionary

  1. archaistically
  2. archaists
  3. archaization
  4. archaizations
  5. archaize
  6. archaized
  7. archaizer
  8. archaizers
  9. archaizes
  10. archaizing
  11. archaizingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archaized (page history and authors); archaize (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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