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legitimized

legitimized is the simple past and past participle of legitimize.

Meaning of legitimize

Verb

legitimize (third-person singular simple present legitimizes, present participle legitimizing, simple past and past participle legitimized)

  1. (transitive) To make legitimate.
    Synonyms:
    legitimate

Words formed from legitimized

Questions about legitimized

What is legitimized the simple past and past participle of?
Legitimized is the simple past and past participle of legitimize.

Words near legitimized in the dictionary

  1. legitimity
  2. legitimizable
  3. legitimization
  4. legitimizations
  5. legitimize
  6. legitimized
  7. legitimizer
  8. legitimizers
  9. legitimizes
  10. legitimizing
  11. legitims

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legitimized (page history and authors); legitimize (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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