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cadaverise

cadaverise is the alternative form of cadaverize.

Meaning of cadaverize

Verb

cadaverize (third-person singular simple present cadaverizes, present participle cadaverizing, simple past and past participle cadaverized)

  1. To remove the life from or to make cadaverous.
    • Yet it is only by having the analyst "cadaverize" herself, as Lacan said, by making her "a total [and therefore absent] presence," that space can be created for the subject's assumption of her own story, for her coming to terms with her own desire.1993, Lahcen Haddad, Narrative, Desire and Historicity, page 269

Forms of cadaverise

third-person singular presentcadaverises
present participlecadaverising
past participlecadaverised
pastcadaverised

Questions about cadaverise

What is cadaverise the alternative form of?
Cadaverise is the alternative form of cadaverize.

Words near cadaverise in the dictionary

  1. cadaveric spasms
  2. cadaverically
  3. cadaverin
  4. cadaverine
  5. cadaverines
  6. cadaverise
  7. cadaverised
  8. cadaverises
  9. cadaverising
  10. cadaverize
  11. cadaverized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cadaverise (page history and authors); cadaverize (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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