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jumboise

jumboise is the alternative form of jumboize.

Meaning of jumboize

Verb

jumboize (third-person singular simple present jumboizes, present participle jumboizing, simple past and past participle jumboized)

  1. (transitive) To lengthen (a ship) by replacing an existing section with a longer section or inserting an additional section.
    • The replacement and enlargement of the entire cargo section, commonly called "jumboizing," of one of the smaller American-flag tankers, now under bareboat charter to the Company, was completed in September.1945, Atlantic Refining Company, Annual Report, The Company

Forms of jumboise

third-person singular presentjumboises
present participlejumboising
past participlejumboised
pastjumboised

Origin of jumboise

From jumbo + -ise.

Words formed from jumboise

Questions about jumboise

What is jumboise the alternative form of?
Jumboise is the alternative form of jumboize.

Words near jumboise in the dictionary

  1. jumbo slices
  2. jumbo squid
  3. jumbogram
  4. jumbograms
  5. jumboisation
  6. jumboise
  7. jumboised
  8. jumboises
  9. jumboising
  10. jumboism
  11. jumboization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jumboise (page history and authors); jumboize (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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