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emotionalize

emotionalize verb: to give (something) an emotional quality.

Verb

emotionalize (third-person singular simple present emotionalizes, present participle emotionalizing, simple past and past participle emotionalized)

  1. (transitive) To give (something) an emotional quality.
  2. (intransitive) To make an emotional display.

Forms of emotionalize

third-person singular presentemotionalizes
present participleemotionalizing
past participleemotionalized
pastemotionalized

Origin of emotionalize

From emotional + -ize.

Words formed from emotionalize

Questions about emotionalize

What does emotionalize mean?
Emotionalize means to give (something) an emotional quality.
What part of speech is emotionalize?
Emotionalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of emotionalize?
The past tense of emotionalize is emotionalized.

Words near emotionalize in the dictionary

  1. emotionalists
  2. emotionalities
  3. emotionality
  4. emotionalization
  5. emotionalizations
  6. emotionalize
  7. emotionalized
  8. emotionalizer
  9. emotionalizers
  10. emotionalizes
  11. emotionalizing

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