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proverbialise

proverbialise is the alternative form of proverbialize.

Meaning of proverbialize

Verb

proverbialize (third-person singular simple present proverbializes, present participle proverbializing, simple past and past participle proverbialized)

  1. (transitive) To turn into a proverb.
  2. (intransitive) To speak in proverbs.

Forms of proverbialise

third-person singular presentproverbialises
present participleproverbialising
past participleproverbialised
pastproverbialised

Questions about proverbialise

What is proverbialise the alternative form of?
Proverbialise is the alternative form of proverbialize.

Words near proverbialise in the dictionary

  1. Provenço-
  2. prover
  3. proverb
  4. proverbed
  5. proverbial
  6. proverbialise
  7. proverbialised
  8. proverbialises
  9. proverbialising
  10. proverbialism
  11. proverbialisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: proverbialise (page history and authors); proverbialize (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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