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baboonizing

baboonizing is the present participle and gerund of baboonize.

Meaning of baboonize

Verb

baboonize (third-person singular simple present baboonizes, present participle baboonizing, simple past and past participle baboonized)

  1. To become, make, or treat like a baboon.
    • but we declaim against the introduction of foreign locks, curls, and fripperies, which serve to baboonize and obscure, rather than to ornament and illustrate the face of man, however whimsical or parsimonious nature may have been in the moulding of it.1834, The Toilette of Health, Beauty, and Fashion, page 19

Questions about baboonizing

What is baboonizing the present participle and gerund of?
Baboonizing is the present participle and gerund of baboonize.

Words near baboonizing in the dictionary

  1. babooning
  2. baboonish
  3. baboonize
  4. baboonized
  5. baboonizes
  6. baboonizing
  7. baboonlike
  8. baboons
  9. baboos
  10. baboosh
  11. babooshes

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