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legitimatize

legitimatize verb: to make legitimate.

Verb

legitimatize (third-person singular simple present legitimatizes, present participle legitimatizing, simple past and past participle legitimatized)

  1. (transitive) To make legitimate.
  2. (transitive) To legalize.

Forms of legitimatize

third-person singular presentlegitimatizes
present participlelegitimatizing
past participlelegitimatized
pastlegitimatized

Origin of legitimatize

From legitimate + -ize.

Words formed from legitimatize

Questions about legitimatize

What does legitimatize mean?
Legitimatize means to make legitimate.
What part of speech is legitimatize?
Legitimatize is a verb.
What is the past tense of legitimatize?
The past tense of legitimatize is legitimatized.

Words near legitimatize in the dictionary

  1. legitimatising
  2. legitimatist
  3. legitimatists
  4. legitimatization
  5. legitimatizations
  6. legitimatize
  7. legitimatized
  8. legitimatizes
  9. legitimatizing
  10. legitimator
  11. legitimators

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