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histrionize

histrionize verb: to act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically.

Verb

histrionize (third-person singular simple present histrionizes, present participle histrionizing, simple past and past participle histrionized)

  1. (rare) To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically.
    • […]the solicitation of the court, and his own recreation, he was pleased to histrionize it1652, Thomas Urquhart, The Jewel

Forms of histrionize

third-person singular presenthistrionizes
present participlehistrionizing
past participlehistrionized
pasthistrionized

Questions about histrionize

What does histrionize mean?
Histrionize means to act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically.
What part of speech is histrionize?
Histrionize is a verb.
What is the past tense of histrionize?
The past tense of histrionize is histrionized.

Words near histrionize in the dictionary

  1. histrionised
  2. histrionises
  3. histrionising
  4. histrionism
  5. histrionisms
  6. histrionize
  7. histrionized
  8. histrionizes
  9. histrionizing
  10. histrions
  11. hists

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