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complementizing

complementizing is the present participle and gerund 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.

Questions about complementizing

What is complementizing the present participle and gerund of?
Complementizing is the present participle and gerund of complementize.

Words near complementizing in the dictionary

  1. complementize
  2. complementized
  3. complementizer
  4. complementizers
  5. complementizes
  6. complementizing
  7. complementoid
  8. complementoids
  9. complementological
  10. complementologist
  11. complementologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: complementizing (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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