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lethargise

lethargise is the alternative form of lethargize.

Meaning of lethargize

Verb

lethargize (third-person singular simple present lethargizes, present participle lethargizing, simple past and past participle lethargized)

  1. To make lethargic.
    • May 23, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
      All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability.

Forms of lethargise

third-person singular presentlethargises
present participlelethargising
past participlelethargised
pastlethargised

Questions about lethargise

What is lethargise the alternative form of?
Lethargise is the alternative form of lethargize.

Words near lethargise in the dictionary

  1. lethargick
  2. lethargicness
  3. lethargie
  4. lethargied
  5. lethargies
  6. lethargise
  7. lethargised
  8. lethargises
  9. lethargising
  10. lethargize
  11. lethargized

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