babelize
babelize verb: to confuse by mixing or mingling divergent or distinct languages or cultures.
Verb (1)
babelize (third-person singular simple present babelizes, present participle babelizing, simple past and past participle babelized)
- To confuse by mixing or mingling divergent or distinct languages or cultures.
- And if we want to speak upon our return of what we have learned there, to speak in our language perforce loses the life of their thoughts, but to speak in their language is to babelize in our own world.1995, Thomas A. Wilson, Genealogy of the way: the construction and uses of the Confucian tradition in late imperial China, →ISBN, page 18
Verb (2) capitalized: Babelize
Babelize (third-person singular simple present Babelizes, present participle Babelizing, simple past and past participle Babelized)
- Alternative form of babelize.
Forms of babelize
| third-person singular present | babelizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | babelizing |
| past participle | babelized |
| past | babelized |
| alternative form | Babelize |
| third-person singular present | Babelizes |
| present participle | Babelizing |
| past participle | Babelized |
| past | Babelized |
Origin of babelize
From Babel + -ize.
Questions about babelize
- What does babelize mean?
- Babelize means to confuse by mixing or mingling divergent or distinct languages or cultures.
- What part of speech is babelize?
- Babelize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of babelize?
- The past tense of babelize is babelized.
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