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eponymizing

eponymizing is the present participle and gerund 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 eponymizing

What is eponymizing the present participle and gerund of?
Eponymizing is the present participle and gerund of eponymize.

Words near eponymizing in the dictionary

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

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