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focalized

focalized is the simple past and past participle of focalize.

Meaning of focalize

Verb

focalize (third-person singular simple present focalizes, present participle focalizing, simple past and past participle focalized)

  1. To focus, or to adjust a focus.
  2. To sharpen an image by focusing.
  3. To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
  4. To switch to a particular perspective (focalization).
    • The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 211

Words formed from focalized

Questions about focalized

What is focalized the simple past and past participle of?
Focalized is the simple past and past participle of focalize.

Words near focalized in the dictionary

  1. focalities
  2. focality
  3. focalization
  4. focalizations
  5. focalize
  6. focalized
  7. focalizer
  8. focalizers
  9. focalizes
  10. focalizing
  11. focally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: focalized (page history and authors); focalize (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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