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autocratise

autocratise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of autocratize.

Meaning of autocratize

Verb

autocratize (third-person singular simple present autocratizes, present participle autocratizing, simple past and past participle autocratized)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make autocratic.
    • The ERT excludes countries that autocratized substantially during the decade or so but where the process is over.2025, “25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped?”, in V-Dem Institute, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2025, page 19

Forms of autocratise

third-person singular presentautocratises
present participleautocratising
past participleautocratised
pastautocratised

Origin of autocratise

From autocrat + -ise.

Questions about autocratise

What is autocratise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Autocratise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of autocratize.

Words near autocratise in the dictionary

  1. autocratesses
  2. autocratic
  3. autocratical
  4. autocratically
  5. autocratisation
  6. autocratise
  7. autocratised
  8. autocratiser
  9. autocratisers
  10. autocratises
  11. autocratising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autocratise (page history and authors); autocratize (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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