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medicalizing

medicalizing is the present participle and gerund of medicalize.

Meaning of medicalize

Verb

medicalize (third-person singular simple present medicalizes, present participle medicalizing, simple past and past participle medicalized)

  1. (transitive) To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize.
    • The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education […]1996, Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies

Questions about medicalizing

What is medicalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Medicalizing is the present participle and gerund of medicalize.

Words near medicalizing in the dictionary

  1. medicalization
  2. medicalizations
  3. medicalize
  4. medicalized
  5. medicalizes
  6. medicalizing
  7. medicalled out
  8. medicalling out
  9. medically
  10. medicals
  11. medicals out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: medicalizing (page history and authors); medicalize (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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