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fragilizing

fragilizing is the present participle and gerund of fragilize.

Meaning of fragilize

Verb

fragilize (third-person singular simple present fragilizes, present participle fragilizing, simple past and past participle fragilized)

  1. (transitive) To make fragile.
    • It is a pluralist world, in which many forms of belief and unbelief jostle, and hence fragilize each other.2009, Charles Taylor, A Secular Age, page 531

Questions about fragilizing

What is fragilizing the present participle and gerund of?
Fragilizing is the present participle and gerund of fragilize.

Words near fragilizing in the dictionary

  1. fragilization
  2. fragilizations
  3. fragilize
  4. fragilized
  5. fragilizes
  6. fragilizing
  7. fragilocyte
  8. fragilocytes
  9. fragilocytoses
  10. fragilocytosis
  11. fragilysin

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