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complementise

complementise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of complementize.

Meaning of complementize

Verb

complementize (third-person singular simple present complementizes, present participle complementizing, simple past and past participle complementized)

  1. (transitive) To convert into a complement.

Forms of complementise

third-person singular presentcomplementises
present participlecomplementising
past participlecomplementised
pastcomplementised

Questions about complementise

What is complementise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Complementise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of complementize.

Words near complementise in the dictionary

  1. complemented classes
  2. complementer
  3. complementers
  4. complementing
  5. complementisation
  6. complementise
  7. complementised
  8. complementiser
  9. complementisers
  10. complementises
  11. complementising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: complementise (page history and authors); complementize (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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