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Gothicize

Gothicize is the alternative spelling of Gothicise.

Meaning of Gothicise

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

Forms of Gothicize

third-person singular presentGothicizes
present participleGothicizing
past participleGothicized
pastGothicized

Origin of Gothicize

From Gothic + -ize.

Questions about Gothicize

What is Gothicize the alternative spelling of?
Gothicize is the alternative spelling of Gothicise.

Words near Gothicize in the dictionary

  1. Gothicism
  2. Gothicisms
  3. Gothicist
  4. Gothicists
  5. Gothicity
  6. Gothicize
  7. Gothicized
  8. Gothicizer
  9. Gothicizers
  10. Gothicizes
  11. Gothicizing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Gothicize (page history and authors); Gothicise (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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