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gargarise

gargarise is the alternative form of gargarize.

Meaning of gargarize

Verb

gargarize (third-person singular simple present gargarizes, present participle gargarizing, simple past and past participle gargarized)

  1. (obsolete) To gargle (rinse or wash mouth and throat).
    • to cease the Hiccough, […]Vinegar put to the Nostrils or Gargarized doth it also1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

Forms of gargarise

third-person singular presentgargarises
present participlegargarising
past participlegargarised
pastgargarised

Questions about gargarise

What is gargarise the alternative form of?
Gargarise is the alternative form of gargarize.

Words near gargarise in the dictionary

  1. Gargans
  2. gargantuan
  3. gargantuanism
  4. gargantuanly
  5. gargantuanness
  6. gargarise
  7. gargarised
  8. gargarises
  9. gargarising
  10. gargarism
  11. gargarisms

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