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ethicize

ethicize verb: to make ethical.

Verb

ethicize (third-person singular simple present ethicizes, present participle ethicizing, simple past and past participle ethicized)

  1. (transitive) To make ethical.

Forms of ethicize

third-person singular presentethicizes
present participleethicizing
past participleethicized
pastethicized

Origin of ethicize

From ethic + -ize.

Questions about ethicize

What does ethicize mean?
Ethicize means to make ethical.
What part of speech is ethicize?
Ethicize is a verb.
What is the past tense of ethicize?
The past tense of ethicize is ethicized.

Words near ethicize in the dictionary

  1. ethicism
  2. ethicisms
  3. ethicist
  4. ethicistic
  5. ethicists
  6. ethicize
  7. ethicized
  8. ethicizes
  9. ethicizing
  10. ethick
  11. ethicks

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