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hostilizing

hostilizing is the present participle and gerund 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 hostilizing

What is hostilizing the present participle and gerund of?
Hostilizing is the present participle and gerund of hostilize.

Words near hostilizing in the dictionary

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

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