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ergotize

ergotize verb: to affect with ergot.

Verb

ergotize (third-person singular simple present ergotizes, present participle ergotizing, simple past and past participle ergotized)

  1. (transitive) To affect with ergot.
    • We refer now to the power possessed by this fungus of infecting healthy grains of corn, and of ergotizing them.1846, Pharmaceutical Journal: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences

Forms of ergotize

third-person singular presentergotizes
present participleergotizing
past participleergotized
pastergotized

Origin of ergotize

From ergot + -ize.

Questions about ergotize

What does ergotize mean?
Ergotize means to affect with ergot.
What part of speech is ergotize?
Ergotize is a verb.
What is the past tense of ergotize?
The past tense of ergotize is ergotized.

Words near ergotize in the dictionary

  1. ergotises
  2. ergotising
  3. ergotism
  4. ergotisms
  5. ergotization
  6. ergotize
  7. ergotized
  8. ergotizes
  9. ergotizing
  10. ergotope
  11. ergotopes

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