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mithridatizing

mithridatizing is the present participle and gerund of mithridatize.

Meaning of mithridatize

Verb

mithridatize (third-person singular simple present mithridatizes, present participle mithridatizing, simple past and past participle mithridatized)

  1. (US) To make immune to a poison by administration of gradually increasing doses.
    • Our constitutions adapt themselves to the slow poison of the world till we become mithridatized at last.1866, J.R. Lowell, letter

Questions about mithridatizing

What is mithridatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Mithridatizing is the present participle and gerund of mithridatize.

Words near mithridatizing in the dictionary

  1. mithridatiums
  2. mithridatization
  3. mithridatize
  4. mithridatized
  5. mithridatizes
  6. mithridatizing
  7. mithridatum
  8. mithril
  9. mithun
  10. mithuna
  11. mithunas

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