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balkanise

balkanise is the alternative spelling of balkanize.

Verb capitalized: Balkanise

Balkanise (third-person singular simple present Balkanises, present participle Balkanising, simple past and past participle Balkanised)

  1. (UK, nonstandard) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Balkanize.

Forms of balkanise

third-person singular presentbalkanises
present participlebalkanising
past participlebalkanised
pastbalkanised
third-person singular presentBalkanises
present participleBalkanising
past participleBalkanised
pastBalkanised

Origin of balkanise

From Balkan + -ise.

Questions about balkanise

What is balkanise the alternative spelling of?
Balkanise is the alternative spelling of balkanize.
What part of speech is balkanise?
Balkanise is a verb.
What is the past tense of balkanise?
The past tense of balkanise is balkanised.

Words near balkanise in the dictionary

  1. Balkania
  2. Balkanian
  3. Balkanic
  4. Balkanisation
  5. Balkanisations
  6. balkanise
  7. balkanised
  8. balkaniser
  9. balkanisers
  10. balkanises
  11. balkanising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: balkanise (page history and authors); Balkanise (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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