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peripheralise

peripheralise is the alternative form of peripheralize.

Meaning of peripheralize

Verb

peripheralize (third-person singular simple present peripheralizes, present participle peripheralizing, simple past and past participle peripheralized)

  1. (transitive) To make peripheral; to marginalize.
    • The male bias that characterizes Western science has traditionally emphasized male activities while peripheralizing female activities.1996, Margot Blum Schevill, Janet Catherine Berlo, Edward Bridgman Dwyer, Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes, page 21

Forms of peripheralise

third-person singular presentperipheralises
present participleperipheralising
past participleperipheralised
pastperipheralised

Origin of peripheralise

From peripheral + -ise.

Words formed from peripheralise

Questions about peripheralise

What is peripheralise the alternative form of?
Peripheralise is the alternative form of peripheralize.

Words near peripheralise in the dictionary

  1. peripheral nervous systems
  2. peripheral neuropathy
  3. peripheral oxygen saturation
  4. peripheral vision
  5. peripheralisation
  6. peripheralise
  7. peripheralised
  8. peripheralises
  9. peripheralising
  10. peripheralism
  11. peripheralist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peripheralise (page history and authors); peripheralize (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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