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infamise

infamise is the alternative form of infamize.

Meaning of infamize

Verb

infamize (third-person singular simple present infamizes, present participle infamizing, simple past and past participle infamized)

  1. (transitive) To make infamous; to defame or smear.
    • Or is some knot of riotous slanderers leagued
      To infamize the name of the King's brother
      With a lie black as Hell?1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Zapolya

Forms of infamise

third-person singular presentinfamises
present participleinfamising
past participleinfamised
pastinfamised

Questions about infamise

What is infamise the alternative form of?
Infamise is the alternative form of infamize.

Words near infamise in the dictionary

  1. infamed
  2. infames
  3. infamie
  4. infamies
  5. infaming
  6. infamise
  7. infamised
  8. infamises
  9. infamising
  10. infamita
  11. infamitas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infamise (page history and authors); infamize (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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