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modalise

modalise is the alternative spelling of modalize.

Meaning of modalize

Verb

modalize (third-person singular simple present modalizes, present participle modalizing, simple past and past participle modalized)

  1. To become or cause to become modal
    • There is a new contradiction inside the gay community, which is that it's becoming more 'modalized', to use a technical term. I'm referring to the clone system, or any kind of system like it. The gay ghetto is not a real integration of gays into society. It's just a concentration of the gay...1974 February 2, John Collis, Guy Hocquenghem, Joe Interrante, Mike Riegle, Charley Shively, Raphael Shively, Lionel Soukaz, “The Homosexual Century: In Search of Gay Memory”, in Gay Community News...

Forms of modalise

third-person singular presentmodalises
present participlemodalising
past participlemodalised
pastmodalised

Origin of modalise

From modal + -ise.

Questions about modalise

What is modalise the alternative spelling of?
Modalise is the alternative spelling of modalize.

Words near modalise in the dictionary

  1. modal shift
  2. modal shifts
  3. modal stacking
  4. modal verb
  5. modal verbs
  6. modalise
  7. modalised
  8. modalises
  9. modalising
  10. modalism
  11. modalisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: modalise (page history and authors); modalize (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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