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phosphatise

phosphatise is the alternative form of phosphatize.

Meaning of phosphatize

Verb

phosphatize (third-person singular simple present phosphatizes, present participle phosphatizing, simple past and past participle phosphatized)

  1. to convert something into a phosphate
  2. to treat something with phosphate or phosphoric acid

Forms of phosphatise

third-person singular presentphosphatises
present participlephosphatising
past participlephosphatised
pastphosphatised

Origin of phosphatise

From phosphate + -ise.

Questions about phosphatise

What is phosphatise the alternative form of?
Phosphatise is the alternative form of phosphatize.

Words near phosphatise in the dictionary

  1. phosphatings
  2. phosphation
  3. phosphations
  4. phosphatisation
  5. phosphatisations
  6. phosphatise
  7. phosphatised
  8. phosphatises
  9. phosphatising
  10. phosphatization
  11. phosphatizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phosphatise (page history and authors); phosphatize (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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