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orphanized

orphanized is the simple past and past participle of orphanize.

Meaning of orphanize

Verb

orphanize (third-person singular simple present orphanizes, present participle orphanizing, simple past and past participle orphanized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To orphan.
    • But you would orphanize creation, deny that God is the Father of all spirits, and forbid needy, lost man to address him as such.1838, Alexander Campbell, William Kimbrough Pendleton, Charles Louis Loos, The Millennial Harbinger

Questions about orphanized

What is orphanized the simple past and past participle of?
Orphanized is the simple past and past participle of orphanize.

Words near orphanized in the dictionary

  1. orphanise
  2. orphanish
  3. orphanism
  4. orphanity
  5. orphanize
  6. orphanized
  7. orphanizes
  8. orphanizing
  9. orphanlike
  10. orphanotrophia
  11. orphanotrophies

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