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cadaverizing

cadaverizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about cadaverizing

What is cadaverizing the present participle and gerund of?
Cadaverizing is the present participle and gerund of cadaverize.

Words near cadaverizing in the dictionary

  1. cadaverises
  2. cadaverising
  3. cadaverize
  4. cadaverized
  5. cadaverizes
  6. cadaverizing
  7. cadaverous
  8. cadaverously
  9. cadaverousness
  10. cadavers
  11. Cadavid

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