Word.ws English Dictionary

piratize

piratize verb: to commit piracy against.

Verb

piratize (third-person singular simple present piratizes, present participle piratizing, simple past and past participle piratized)

  1. (rare, transitive) To commit piracy against.

Forms of piratize

third-person singular presentpiratizes
present participlepiratizing
past participlepiratized
pastpiratized

Origin of piratize

From pirate + -ize.

Questions about piratize

What does piratize mean?
Piratize means to commit piracy against.
What part of speech is piratize?
Piratize is a verb.
What is the past tense of piratize?
The past tense of piratize is piratized.

Words near piratize in the dictionary

  1. piratically
  2. pirating
  3. piratings
  4. Piratini Republic
  5. piratism
  6. piratize
  7. piratized
  8. piratizes
  9. piratizing
  10. piraty
  11. piraya

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: piratize (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “piratize.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/piratize. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.