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infamizing

infamizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about infamizing

What is infamizing the present participle and gerund of?
Infamizing is the present participle and gerund of infamize.

Words near infamizing in the dictionary

  1. infamita
  2. infamitas
  3. infamize
  4. infamized
  5. infamizes
  6. infamizing
  7. infamonise
  8. infamonize
  9. infamous
  10. infamously
  11. infamousness

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