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endenize

endenize is the alternative form of endenizen.

Meaning of endenizen

Verb

endenizen (third-person singular simple present endenizens, present participle endenizening, simple past and past participle endenizened)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To bestow the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.
    • For it is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter

Forms of endenize

third-person singular presentendenizes
present participleendenizing
past participleendenized
pastendenized

Questions about endenize

What is endenize the alternative form of?
Endenize is the alternative form of endenizen.

Words near endenize in the dictionary

  1. endemism
  2. endemisms
  3. endemoepidemic
  4. endenization
  5. endenizations
  6. endenize
  7. endenized
  8. endenizen
  9. endenizened
  10. endenizening
  11. endenizens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: endenize (page history and authors); endenizen (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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