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eccentrize

eccentrize verb: to make eccentric.

Verb

eccentrize (third-person singular simple present eccentrizes, present participle eccentrizing, simple past and past participle eccentrized)

  1. (transitive) To make eccentric.
    • Tigerism has for a long time been on the increase among writers; for since it has been the fashion in the great world to take up any scribbler who has libelled, fought, or eccentrized himself into notice, the spoiled child of the season has found it easier to outrer the dress and deportment of a...1836, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
    • It is clear from any study of this kind that whether from inertias or resistances , society feels a need to eccentrize innovations and innovators, to burlesque and caricature them, to incarcerate them securely in a folklore.1945, RMR, Rocky Mountain Review - Volume 10, page 174

Forms of eccentrize

third-person singular presenteccentrizes
present participleeccentrizing
past participleeccentrized
pasteccentrized

Origin of eccentrize

From eccentric + -ize.

Questions about eccentrize

What does eccentrize mean?
Eccentrize means to make eccentric.
What part of speech is eccentrize?
Eccentrize is a verb.
What is the past tense of eccentrize?
The past tense of eccentrize is eccentrized.

Words near eccentrize in the dictionary

  1. eccentricities
  2. eccentricity
  3. eccentrick
  4. eccentricks
  5. eccentrics
  6. eccentrize
  7. eccentrized
  8. eccentrizes
  9. eccentrizing
  10. eccentrometer
  11. eccentrometers

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