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genealogize

genealogize verb: to investigate family lineage.

Verb

genealogize (third-person singular simple present genealogizes, present participle genealogizing, simple past and past participle genealogized)

  1. To investigate family lineage.
  2. To relate the history of a family.

Forms of genealogize

third-person singular presentgenealogizes
present participlegenealogizing
past participlegenealogized
pastgenealogized

Origin of genealogize

From genealogy + -ize.

Words formed from genealogize

Questions about genealogize

What does genealogize mean?
Genealogize means to investigate family lineage.
What part of speech is genealogize?
Genealogize is a verb.
What is the past tense of genealogize?
The past tense of genealogize is genealogized.

Words near genealogize in the dictionary

  1. genealogised
  2. genealogises
  3. genealogising
  4. genealogist
  5. genealogists
  6. genealogize
  7. genealogized
  8. genealogizer
  9. genealogizers
  10. genealogizes
  11. genealogizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: genealogize (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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