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eponymizes

eponymizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 eponymizes

What is eponymizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Eponymizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eponymize.

Words near eponymizes in the dictionary

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

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