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favorise

favorise is the alternative form of favorize.

Meaning of favorize

Verb

favorize (third-person singular simple present favorizes, present participle favorizing, simple past and past participle favorized)

  1. To favor especially or unduly.

Forms of favorise

third-person singular presentfavorises
present participlefavorising
past participlefavorised
pastfavorised

Origin of favorise

From favor + -ise.

Questions about favorise

What is favorise the alternative form of?
Favorise is the alternative form of favorize.

Words near favorise in the dictionary

  1. favori
  2. favoring
  3. favoringly
  4. favorings
  5. favoris
  6. favorise
  7. favorises
  8. favoristic
  9. favorite
  10. favorite people
  11. favorite person

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Adapted from Wiktionary: favorise (page history and authors); favorize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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