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delexicalise

delexicalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of delexicalize.

Meaning of delexicalize

Verb

delexicalize (third-person singular simple present delexicalizes, present participle delexicalizing, simple past and past participle delexicalized)

  1. To make delexical. (Compare desemanticize.)

Forms of delexicalise

third-person singular presentdelexicalises
present participledelexicalising
past participledelexicalised
pastdelexicalised

Questions about delexicalise

What is delexicalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Delexicalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of delexicalize.

Words near delexicalise in the dictionary

  1. delevering
  2. delevers
  3. delexical
  4. delexicalisation
  5. delexicalisations
  6. delexicalise
  7. delexicalised
  8. delexicalises
  9. delexicalising
  10. delexicality
  11. delexicalization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delexicalise (page history and authors); delexicalize (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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