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instinctualize

instinctualize verb: to make instinctual.

Verb

instinctualize (third-person singular simple present instinctualizes, present participle instinctualizing, simple past and past participle instinctualized)

  1. (transitive) To make instinctual.

Forms of instinctualize

third-person singular presentinstinctualizes
present participleinstinctualizing
past participleinstinctualized
pastinstinctualized
alternative forminstinctualise

Origin of instinctualize

From instinctual + -ize.

Questions about instinctualize

What does instinctualize mean?
Instinctualize means to make instinctual.
What part of speech is instinctualize?
Instinctualize is a verb.
What is the past tense of instinctualize?
The past tense of instinctualize is instinctualized.

Words near instinctualize in the dictionary

  1. instinctualise
  2. instinctualised
  3. instinctualises
  4. instinctualising
  5. instinctualization
  6. instinctualize
  7. instinctualized
  8. instinctualizes
  9. instinctualizing
  10. instinctually
  11. INSTIs

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