hooverise
hooverise is the alternative form of Hooverize.
Meaning of Hooverize
Verb
Hooverize (third-person singular simple present Hooverizes, present participle Hooverizing, simple past and past participle Hooverized)
- To be economical in the use of a resource, particularly food.
- The clean plate is the slogan of today, / And we this vital war-cry must obey, / And waste no single particle or crust / And save the scraps, for now we really must / Hooverize! / The empty garbage pail is now the rage, / And in this ‘war on waste’ which we must wage / To throw away an egg shell...1917, Margaret Leet Beckman, “Hooverize!”, in Table Talk, volume 43, number 3, page 21
Verb capitalized: Hooverise
Hooverise (third-person singular simple present Hooverises, present participle Hooverising, simple past and past participle Hooverised)
- Alternative form of Hooverize.
Forms of hooverise
| third-person singular present | hooverises |
|---|---|
| present participle | hooverising |
| past participle | hooverised |
| past | hooverised |
| third-person singular present | Hooverises |
| present participle | Hooverising |
| past participle | Hooverised |
| past | Hooverised |
Questions about hooverise
- What is hooverise the alternative form of?
- Hooverise is the alternative form of Hooverize.
- What part of speech is hooverise?
- Hooverise is a verb.
- What is the past tense of hooverise?
- The past tense of hooverise is hooverised.
Words near hooverise in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hooverise (page history and authors); Hooverise (page history and authors); Hooverize (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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