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lemmatize

lemmatize verb: to convert an inflected form of a lexeme to a lemma.

Verb

lemmatize (third-person singular simple present lemmatizes, present participle lemmatizing, simple past and past participle lemmatized)

  1. To convert an inflected form of a lexeme to a lemma.

Forms of lemmatize

third-person singular presentlemmatizes
present participlelemmatizing
past participlelemmatized
pastlemmatized
alternative formlemmatise

Origin of lemmatize

From lemmat(ic) + -ize.

Words formed from lemmatize

Questions about lemmatize

What does lemmatize mean?
Lemmatize means to convert an inflected form of a lexeme to a lemma.
What part of speech is lemmatize?
Lemmatize is a verb.
What is the past tense of lemmatize?
The past tense of lemmatize is lemmatized.

Words near lemmatize in the dictionary

  1. lemmatises
  2. lemmatising
  3. lemmatizable
  4. lemmatization
  5. lemmatizations
  6. lemmatize
  7. lemmatized
  8. lemmatizer
  9. lemmatizers
  10. lemmatizes
  11. lemmatizing

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