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harmonizing

harmonizing is the present participle and gerund of harmonize.

Meaning of harmonize

Verb

harmonize (third-person singular simple present harmonizes, present participle harmonizing, simple past and past participle harmonized)

  1. (intransitive) To be in harmonious agreement.
    • This explanation of the clan totem harmonizes with the supposed effect of killing one of the totem species.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 220
  2. (intransitive) To play or sing in harmony.
  3. (transitive) To provide parts to.
  4. (transitive) To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible; to reconcile; juggle.
    • The flagrant contradiction between the two accounts is explained very simply by the circumstance that they are derived from two different and originally independent documents, which were afterwards combined into a single book by an editor, who pieced the two narratives together without always...1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 4
  5. (transitive) To provide the harmony for a melody.

Words formed from harmonizing

Questions about harmonizing

What is harmonizing the present participle and gerund of?
Harmonizing is the present participle and gerund of harmonize.

Words near harmonizing in the dictionary

  1. harmonized
  2. harmonizer
  3. harmonizers
  4. harmonizes
  5. harmonizeth
  6. harmonizing
  7. harmonizingly
  8. harmonogram
  9. harmonograms
  10. harmonograph
  11. harmonographs

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