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frictionize

frictionize verb: to apply friction to.

Verb

frictionize (third-person singular simple present frictionizes, present participle frictionizing, simple past and past participle frictionized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To apply friction to.
    • Then to one grain of this compound add ninety nine grains more of sugar of milk, frictionize as before, and we get the second potency or attenuation, and so on, until the eleventh potency is reached, […]1893, The American Monthly Magazine, volume 3, page 219
    • The thing of supreme importance in this treatment was to instruct the patient to frictionize the gums so persistently with the tooth-brush that no infection of the sulci could take place.1912, Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain). Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Proceedings (volume 5, page 67)

Forms of frictionize

third-person singular presentfrictionizes
present participlefrictionizing
past participlefrictionized
pastfrictionized

Origin of frictionize

From friction + -ize.

Questions about frictionize

What does frictionize mean?
Frictionize means to apply friction to.
What part of speech is frictionize?
Frictionize is a verb.
What is the past tense of frictionize?
The past tense of frictionize is frictionized.

Words near frictionize in the dictionary

  1. frictional blight
  2. frictional unemployment
  3. frictionally
  4. frictionite
  5. frictionites
  6. frictionize
  7. frictionized
  8. frictionizes
  9. frictionizing
  10. frictionless
  11. frictionlessly

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