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hostilized

hostilized is the simple past and past participle of hostilize.

Meaning of hostilize

Verb

hostilize (third-person singular simple present hostilizes, present participle hostilizing, simple past and past participle hostilized)

  1. (archaic) To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
    • When England, Spain, Holland, and Russia united with the powers already hostilized against an impious nation, that had reduced robbery, murder, and profaneness to a cool and practical system, I thought there was the fairest prospect of their success .1794, Anna Seward, Letters of Anna Seward Letter 96, to Reverend T. S. Whalley.

Questions about hostilized

What is hostilized the simple past and past participle of?
Hostilized is the simple past and past participle of hostilize.

Words near hostilized in the dictionary

  1. hostileness
  2. hostiles
  3. hostilities
  4. hostility
  5. hostilize
  6. hostilized
  7. hostilizes
  8. hostilizing
  9. hosting
  10. hostings
  11. hostis humani generis

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