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diplomatize

diplomatize verb: to engage in diplomacy.

Verb

diplomatize (third-person singular simple present diplomatizes, present participle diplomatizing, simple past and past participle diplomatized)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in diplomacy.
    • Without diplomatising to do so, with no effort to square her, none to bribe her to an attitude for which he would have had no use in her if it weren't sincere, he yet felt how he both held her and moved her by the felicity of his taking pity, all instinctively, on her just discernible depression.1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl
  2. (transitive) To effect by means of diplomacy.

Forms of diplomatize

third-person singular presentdiplomatizes
present participlediplomatizing
past participlediplomatized
pastdiplomatized

Origin of diplomatize

From diplomat + -ize.

Words formed from diplomatize

Questions about diplomatize

What does diplomatize mean?
Diplomatize means to engage in diplomacy.
What part of speech is diplomatize?
Diplomatize is a verb.
What is the past tense of diplomatize?
The past tense of diplomatize is diplomatized.

Words near diplomatize in the dictionary

  1. diplomatising
  2. diplomatism
  3. diplomatist
  4. diplomatists
  5. diplomatization
  6. diplomatize
  7. diplomatized
  8. diplomatizes
  9. diplomatizing
  10. diplomatology
  11. diplomats

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