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goblinize

goblinize verb: to transform (someone) into a goblin.

Verb

goblinize (third-person singular simple present goblinizes, present participle goblinizing, simple past and past participle goblinized)

  1. (transitive) To transform (someone) into a goblin.
    • Once goblinized, Herodias joins them, doomed still to bear about the [John the] Baptist's head; […]1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 118

Forms of goblinize

third-person singular presentgoblinizes
present participlegoblinizing
past participlegoblinized
pastgoblinized

Origin of goblinize

From goblin + -ize.

Questions about goblinize

What does goblinize mean?
Goblinize means to transform (someone) into a goblin.
What part of speech is goblinize?
Goblinize is a verb.
What is the past tense of goblinize?
The past tense of goblinize is goblinized.

Words near goblinize in the dictionary

  1. goblinesque
  2. gobliness
  3. goblinesses
  4. goblinish
  5. goblinism
  6. goblinize
  7. goblinized
  8. goblinizes
  9. goblinizing
  10. goblinkind
  11. goblinlike

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