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cancerize

cancerize verb: to make cancerous; to affect with cancer.

Verb

cancerize (third-person singular simple present cancerizes, present participle cancerizing, simple past and past participle cancerized)

  1. (rare, transitive) To make cancerous; to affect with cancer.
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Forms of cancerize

third-person singular presentcancerizes
present participlecancerizing
past participlecancerized
pastcancerized

Origin of cancerize

From cancer + -ize.

Questions about cancerize

What does cancerize mean?
Cancerize means to make cancerous; to affect with cancer.
What part of speech is cancerize?
Cancerize is a verb.
What is the past tense of cancerize?
The past tense of cancerize is cancerized.

Words near cancerize in the dictionary

  1. cancerisation
  2. cancerisations
  3. cancerism
  4. cancerization
  5. cancerizations
  6. cancerize
  7. cancerized
  8. cancerless
  9. cancerlike
  10. cancerocidal
  11. cancerogen

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