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Carterize

Carterize verb: to make like former US president Jimmy Carter.

Verb

Carterize (third-person singular simple present Carterizes, present participle Carterizing, simple past and past participle Carterized)

  1. (transitive) To make like former US president Jimmy Carter.
    • The latest evidence of an executive branch apparently determined to Carterize itself comes in the waffling over gasoline lead regulations.1982, Commercial West, volume 163, numbers 1-13, page 8
    • Ronald Reagan, already under attack from news hounds and political commentators as being overly simple in his approach to everything, deftly avoided all their efforts to "Carterize" him and his Christian beliefs and cruised to an easy electoral victory.1996, Norman E. Wymbs, Ronald Reagan's crusade, page 327

Forms of Carterize

third-person singular presentCarterizes
present participleCarterizing
past participleCarterized
pastCarterized

Origin of Carterize

From Carter + -ize.

Questions about Carterize

What does Carterize mean?
Carterize means to make like former US president Jimmy Carter.
What part of speech is Carterize?
Carterize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Carterize?
The past tense of Carterize is Carterized.

Words near Carterize in the dictionary

  1. Carteret
  2. Carteret County
  3. Carterian
  4. Carterism
  5. Carterization
  6. Carterize
  7. Carterized
  8. Carterizes
  9. Carterizing
  10. carterly
  11. Carternomics

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