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legitimated

legitimated is the simple past and past participle of legitimate.

Meaning of legitimate

Verb

legitimate (third-person singular simple present legitimates, present participle legitimating, simple past and past participle legitimated)

  1. (transitive) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
    Synonyms:
    legitimize

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Questions about legitimated

What is legitimated the simple past and past participle of?
Legitimated is the simple past and past participle of legitimate.

Words near legitimated in the dictionary

  1. legitimate interest
  2. legitimate interests
  3. legitimate theater
  4. legitimate theaters
  5. legitimate theatre
  6. legitimated
  7. legitimately
  8. legitimateness
  9. legitimates
  10. legitimating
  11. legitimation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legitimated (page history and authors); legitimate (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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