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pathologized

pathologized is the simple past and past participle of pathologize.

Meaning of pathologize

Verb

pathologize (third-person singular simple present pathologizes, present participle pathologizing, simple past and past participle pathologized)

  1. (transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.
    • Near-synonym: medicalize
    Synonyms:
    medicalize

Questions about pathologized

What is pathologized the simple past and past participle of?
Pathologized is the simple past and past participle of pathologize.

Words near pathologized in the dictionary

  1. pathologist
  2. pathologists
  3. pathologization
  4. pathologizations
  5. pathologize
  6. pathologized
  7. pathologizes
  8. pathologizing
  9. pathology
  10. pathomania
  11. pathomechanical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathologized (page history and authors); pathologize (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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