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mercurialize

mercurialize verb: to treat with mercury (the metal).

Verb

mercurialize (third-person singular simple present mercurializes, present participle mercurializing, simple past and past participle mercurialized)

  1. (transitive) To treat with mercury (the metal).
  2. (obsolete) To treat with a mercury ointment.

Forms of mercurialize

third-person singular presentmercurializes
present participlemercurializing
past participlemercurialized
pastmercurialized

Origin of mercurialize

From mercurial + -ize.

Questions about mercurialize

What does mercurialize mean?
Mercurialize means to treat with mercury (the metal).
What part of speech is mercurialize?
Mercurialize is a verb.
What is the past tense of mercurialize?
The past tense of mercurialize is mercurialized.

Words near mercurialize in the dictionary

  1. mercurialists
  2. mercurialities
  3. mercuriality
  4. mercurialization
  5. mercurializations
  6. mercurialize
  7. mercurialized
  8. mercurializes
  9. mercurializing
  10. mercuriall
  11. mercurialls

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