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maternalizes

maternalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of maternalize.

Meaning of maternalize

Verb

maternalize (third-person singular simple present maternalizes, present participle maternalizing, simple past and past participle maternalized)

  1. (transitive) To make maternal.
    • Women's professional status is frequently mediated by overt efforts to "beautify" or maternalize them, or both.2003, Rory Cooke Dicker, Alison Piepmeier, Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century

Questions about maternalizes

What is maternalizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Maternalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of maternalize.

Words near maternalizes in the dictionary

  1. maternalists
  2. maternality
  3. maternalization
  4. maternalize
  5. maternalized
  6. maternalizes
  7. maternalizing
  8. maternall
  9. maternally
  10. maternalness
  11. maternals

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