Word.ws English Dictionary

australizing

australizing is the present participle and gerund of australize.

Meaning of australize

Verb

australize (third-person singular simple present australizes, present participle australizing, simple past and past participle australized)

  1. (intransitive) To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet.
    • They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudoloxia Epidemica

Questions about australizing

What is australizing the present participle and gerund of?
Australizing is the present participle and gerund of australize.

Words near australizing in the dictionary

  1. australite
  2. australites
  3. australize
  4. australized
  5. australizes
  6. australizing
  7. australly
  8. Australo-
  9. Australo-Melanesian
  10. Australo-Melanesians
  11. Australo-Papuan babbler

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: australizing (page history and authors); australize (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “australizing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/australizing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.