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Gothicise

Gothicise verb: to make Gothic in style or character.

Verb

Gothicise (third-person singular simple present Gothicises, present participle Gothicising, simple past and past participle Gothicised)

  1. (transitive) To make Gothic in style or character.
    • Director Burton skillfully mixes aspects of these [traditional horror] films with the emotional naiveté and post-modern chic of contemporary teen-films. This gives us something that resembles a gothicized Sixteen Candles or a monstrous Pretty in Pink.1990 December 16, Michael Bronski, “Cutting Up”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 20
    • ..He was commissioned to Gothicise the royal apartments at Windsor and to work on William Beckford's house at Fonthill.2006, Veronica Ortenberg, In Search of the Holy Grail: The Quest for the Middle Ages

Forms of Gothicise

third-person singular presentGothicises
present participleGothicising
past participleGothicised
pastGothicised

Origin of Gothicise

From Gothic + -ise.

Questions about Gothicise

What does Gothicise mean?
Gothicise means to make Gothic in style or character.
What part of speech is Gothicise?
Gothicise is a verb.
What is the past tense of Gothicise?
The past tense of Gothicise is Gothicised.

Words near Gothicise in the dictionary

  1. gothic horror
  2. Gothic Lolita
  3. gothic metal
  4. gothic rock
  5. gothically
  6. Gothicise
  7. Gothicised
  8. Gothiciser
  9. Gothicisers
  10. Gothicises
  11. Gothicising

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