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cretinise

cretinise is the alternative form of cretinize.

Meaning of cretinize

Verb

cretinize (third-person singular simple present cretinizes, present participle cretinizing, simple past and past participle cretinized)

  1. (transitive) To cause to be or act like a cretin.

Forms of cretinise

third-person singular presentcretinises
present participlecretinising
past participlecretinised
pastcretinised

Questions about cretinise

What is cretinise the alternative form of?
Cretinise is the alternative form of cretinize.

Words near cretinise in the dictionary

  1. cretifies
  2. cretify
  3. cretifying
  4. cretin
  5. cretinic
  6. cretinise
  7. cretinised
  8. cretinises
  9. cretinising
  10. cretinism
  11. cretinisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cretinise (page history and authors); cretinize (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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