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eponymized

eponymized is the simple past and past participle of eponymize.

Meaning of eponymize

Verb

eponymize (third-person singular simple present eponymizes, present participle eponymizing, simple past and past participle eponymized)

  1. (transitive) To name (something or someone) after oneself or another entity; to give an eponym as a name.
    • His name was eponymized in the Kelly pad for obstetrical and surgical tables, the Kelly cystoscope for visualization of the female bladder (he was the first to use air to inflate the bladder for examination and for catheterization of the ureters) […]1999, John Arthur Garraty, Mark Christopher Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies, American National Biography (volume 12, page 522)

Questions about eponymized

What is eponymized the simple past and past participle of?
Eponymized is the simple past and past participle of eponymize.

Words near eponymized in the dictionary

  1. eponymies
  2. eponymism
  3. eponymist
  4. eponymists
  5. eponymize
  6. eponymized
  7. eponymizes
  8. eponymizing
  9. eponymous
  10. eponymously
  11. eponyms

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