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cyclise

cyclise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cyclize.

Meaning of cyclize

Verb

cyclize (third-person singular simple present cyclizes, present participle cyclizing, simple past and past participle cyclized)

  1. (ambitransitive) To undergo, or cause to undergo, a reaction resulting in the formation of an aromatic or ring structure.
    • Thus, at 135°C, 223 cyclizes with loss of propene to the borinene 229, which then rearranges to other products.2012, Donald S. Matteson, Stereodirected Synthesis with Organoboranes, page 96

Forms of cyclise

third-person singular presentcyclises
present participlecyclising
past participlecyclised
pastcyclised

Questions about cyclise

What is cyclise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Cyclise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cyclize.

Words near cyclise in the dictionary

  1. cycliophorans
  2. cycliophore
  3. cycliophores
  4. cyclisation
  5. cyclisations
  6. cyclise
  7. cyclised
  8. cyclising
  9. cyclism
  10. cyclist
  11. cyclistic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyclise (page history and authors); cyclize (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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