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hostilizes

hostilizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 hostilizes

What is hostilizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hostilizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hostilize.

Words near hostilizes in the dictionary

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

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