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controversializing

controversializing is the present participle and gerund of controversialize.

Meaning of controversialize

Verb

controversialize (third-person singular simple present controversializes, present participle controversializing, simple past and past participle controversialized)

  1. (transitive) To make to appear controversial.
    • "Astroturfers and propagandists tend to attack and controversialize the news organizations, personalities and people surrounding an issue rather than sticking to the facts."2015, Kevin Barry, Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC

Questions about controversializing

What is controversializing the present participle and gerund of?
Controversializing is the present participle and gerund of controversialize.

Words near controversializing in the dictionary

  1. controversialities
  2. controversiality
  3. controversialize
  4. controversialized
  5. controversializes
  6. controversializing
  7. controversiall
  8. controversially
  9. controversialness
  10. controversials
  11. controversies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: controversializing (page history and authors); controversialize (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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