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interrogativizing

interrogativizing is the present participle and gerund of interrogativize.

Meaning of interrogativize

Verb

interrogativize (third-person singular simple present interrogativizes, present participle interrogativizing, simple past and past participle interrogativized)

  1. To make interrogative.
    • All languages have devices to negativize and interrogativize and to turn some sentences into commands and propositions: I am not going, are you? Come on!1968, Yuen Ren Chao, “The Classification of Languages” (chapter 41), in Language and Symbolic Systems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 91

Questions about interrogativizing

What is interrogativizing the present participle and gerund of?
Interrogativizing is the present participle and gerund of interrogativize.

Words near interrogativizing in the dictionary

  1. interrogatives
  2. interrogativity
  3. interrogativize
  4. interrogativized
  5. interrogativizes
  6. interrogativizing
  7. interrogator
  8. interrogatories
  9. interrogatorily
  10. interrogators
  11. interrogatory

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