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mercurize

mercurize verb: to treat with mercury.

Verb

mercurize (third-person singular simple present mercurizes, present participle mercurizing, simple past and past participle mercurized)

  1. (transitive) To treat with mercury.

Forms of mercurize

third-person singular presentmercurizes
present participlemercurizing
past participlemercurized
pastmercurized

Origin of mercurize

From mercury + -ize.

Questions about mercurize

What does mercurize mean?
Mercurize means to treat with mercury.
What part of speech is mercurize?
Mercurize is a verb.
What is the past tense of mercurize?
The past tense of mercurize is mercurized.

Words near mercurize in the dictionary

  1. mercurism
  2. mercurisms
  3. Mercurius
  4. mercurization
  5. mercurizations
  6. mercurize
  7. mercurized
  8. mercurizes
  9. mercurizing
  10. mercuroan
  11. mercurochrome

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