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dismalized

dismalized is the simple past and past participle of dismalize.

Meaning of dismalize

Verb

dismalize (third-person singular simple present dismalizes, present participle dismalizing, simple past and past participle dismalized)

  1. To make dismal.
    • And glancing through the pages of the “Lowell Offering” a year or two later, I see that I continued to dismalize myself at times, quite unnecessarily.1889, Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory, page 213

Questions about dismalized

What is dismalized the simple past and past participle of?
Dismalized is the simple past and past participle of dismalize.

Words near dismalized in the dictionary

  1. dismalite
  2. dismalites
  3. dismalities
  4. dismality
  5. dismalize
  6. dismalized
  7. dismalizes
  8. dismalizing
  9. dismaller
  10. dismallest
  11. dismally

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