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nickelize

nickelize verb: to cover with nickel.

Verb

nickelize (third-person singular simple present nickelizes, present participle nickelizing, simple past and past participle nickelized)

  1. (transitive) To cover with nickel.

Forms of nickelize

third-person singular presentnickelizes
present participlenickelizing
past participlenickelized
pastnickelized

Origin of nickelize

From nickel + -ize.

Questions about nickelize

What does nickelize mean?
Nickelize means to cover with nickel.
What part of speech is nickelize?
Nickelize is a verb.
What is the past tense of nickelize?
The past tense of nickelize is nickelized.

Words near nickelize in the dictionary

  1. nickelise
  2. nickelised
  3. nickelises
  4. nickelising
  5. nickelization
  6. nickelize
  7. nickelized
  8. nickelizes
  9. nickelizing
  10. Nickell
  11. nickelled

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