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pastoralize

pastoralize verb: to make pastoral.

Verb

pastoralize (third-person singular simple present pastoralizes, present participle pastoralizing, simple past and past participle pastoralized)

  1. (transitive) To make pastoral.

Forms of pastoralize

third-person singular presentpastoralizes
present participlepastoralizing
past participlepastoralized
pastpastoralized

Origin of pastoralize

From pastoral + -ize.

Questions about pastoralize

What does pastoralize mean?
Pastoralize means to make pastoral.
What part of speech is pastoralize?
Pastoralize is a verb.
What is the past tense of pastoralize?
The past tense of pastoralize is pastoralized.

Words near pastoralize in the dictionary

  1. pastoralist
  2. pastoralists
  3. pastorality
  4. pastoralization
  5. pastoralizations
  6. pastoralize
  7. pastoralized
  8. pastoralizes
  9. pastoralizing
  10. pastorally
  11. pastoralness

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