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citizenise

citizenise is the alternative form of citizenize.

Meaning of citizenize

Verb

citizenize (third-person singular simple present citizenizes, present participle citizenizing, simple past and past participle citizenized)

  1. To make (or become) a citizen of.
    • [Solicitor general John D.] Sauer claims that the [fourteenth] amendment [to the United States constitution] does not in general citizenize American-born children of illegal aliens or of temporary visitors. […] By contrast, in the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, countless notable figures who were...2026 March 19, Akhil Amar, Vikram Amar, Jason Mazzone, “Birthright citizenship: why the text, history, and structure of a landmark 1952 statute doom Trump’s executive order”, in SCOTUSblog, archived...

Forms of citizenise

third-person singular presentcitizenises
present participlecitizenising
past participlecitizenised
pastcitizenised

Origin of citizenise

From citizen + -ise.

Questions about citizenise

What is citizenise the alternative form of?
Citizenise is the alternative form of citizenize.

Words near citizenise in the dictionary

  1. citizen's arrests
  2. citizendom
  3. citizeness
  4. citizenesses
  5. citizenhood
  6. citizenise
  7. citizenised
  8. citizenises
  9. citizenish
  10. citizenising
  11. citizenism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: citizenise (page history and authors); citizenize (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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