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carcinise

carcinise is the alternative spelling of carcinize.

Meaning of carcinize

Verb

carcinize (third-person singular simple present carcinizes, present participle carcinizing, simple past and past participle carcinized)

  1. (evolutionary theory) Of a species, to take on a cancroid form in the course of evolution.
    • partially carcinized
    Synonyms:
    crabbify

Forms of carcinise

third-person singular presentcarcinises
present participlecarcinising
past participlecarcinised
pastcarcinised

Questions about carcinise

What is carcinise the alternative spelling of?
Carcinise is the alternative spelling of carcinize.

Words near carcinise in the dictionary

  1. carcineretids
  2. carcinid
  3. carcinids
  4. carcinine
  5. carcinisation
  6. carcinise
  7. carcinization
  8. carcinize
  9. carcinized
  10. carcinizes
  11. carcinizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carcinise (page history and authors); carcinize (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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