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medialise

medialise is the alternative form of medialize.

Meaning of medialize

Verb

medialize (third-person singular simple present medializes, present participle medializing, simple past and past participle medialized)

  1. To become more medial.
    • Failure of nasal bones to medialize is due to an obstructive phenomenon between the two nasal bones.2008, Michael Evan Sachs, Mastering Revision Rhinoplasty, page 62
  2. To render (a consonant) more medial.
    • It is quite possible that the earlier Abenakis may have only partially medialized their consonants after vowels.1902 (January - March), American Anthropologist

Forms of medialise

third-person singular presentmedialises
present participlemedialising
past participlemedialised
pastmedialised

Origin of medialise

From medial + -ise.

Questions about medialise

What is medialise the alternative form of?
Medialise is the alternative form of medialize.

Words near medialise in the dictionary

  1. medial s
  2. medial s's
  3. medial slang
  4. medialect
  5. medialects
  6. medialise
  7. medialised
  8. medialises
  9. medialising
  10. mediality
  11. medialization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: medialise (page history and authors); medialize (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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