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imperialise

imperialise is the alternative form of imperialize.

Meaning of imperialize

Verb

imperialize (third-person singular simple present imperializes, present participle imperializing, simple past and past participle imperialized)

  1. To invest with imperial authority, character, or style.
  2. To bring to the form of an empire.
    • The competition to imperialize foreign lands was another cause of World War I.

Forms of imperialise

third-person singular presentimperialises
present participleimperialising
past participleimperialised
pastimperialised

Questions about imperialise

What is imperialise the alternative form of?
Imperialise is the alternative form of imperialize.

Words near imperialise in the dictionary

  1. imperial-royal
  2. Imperiale
  3. Imperiales
  4. imperialin
  5. imperialine
  6. imperialise
  7. imperialised
  8. imperialises
  9. imperialising
  10. imperialism
  11. imperialisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imperialise (page history and authors); imperialize (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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