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orphanizes

orphanizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 orphanizes

What is orphanizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Orphanizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of orphanize.

Words near orphanizes in the dictionary

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

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