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intransitivize

intransitivize verb: to make intransitive.

Verb

intransitivize (third-person singular simple present intransitivizes, present participle intransitivizing, simple past and past participle intransitivized)

  1. (transitive) To make intransitive.

Forms of intransitivize

third-person singular presentintransitivizes
present participleintransitivizing
past participleintransitivized
pastintransitivized

Origin of intransitivize

From intransitive + -ize.

Words formed from intransitivize

Questions about intransitivize

What does intransitivize mean?
Intransitivize means to make intransitive.
What part of speech is intransitivize?
Intransitivize is a verb.
What is the past tense of intransitivize?
The past tense of intransitivize is intransitivized.

Words near intransitivize in the dictionary

  1. intransitiveness
  2. intransitives
  3. intransitivities
  4. intransitivity
  5. intransitivization
  6. intransitivize
  7. intransitivized
  8. intransitivizer
  9. intransitivizers
  10. intransitivizes
  11. intransitivizing

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