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psychiatrise

psychiatrise is the alternative form of psychiatrize.

Meaning of psychiatrize

Verb

psychiatrize (third-person singular simple present psychiatrizes, present participle psychiatrizing, simple past and past participle psychiatrized)

  1. (transitive) To make psychiatric; to bring into the realm of psychiatry.
    • On the other hand it is just as important not to psychiatrize youth as a whole, to avoid over-hasty interference that will run counter to the aim in view by 'freezing' or even preventing the progressive spontaneous process.1974, André Haïm, Adolescent suicide, page 48

Forms of psychiatrise

third-person singular presentpsychiatrises
present participlepsychiatrising
past participlepsychiatrised
pastpsychiatrised

Questions about psychiatrise

What is psychiatrise the alternative form of?
Psychiatrise is the alternative form of psychiatrize.

Words near psychiatrise in the dictionary

  1. psychiatrical
  2. psychiatrically
  3. psychiatrics
  4. psychiatries
  5. psychiatrisation
  6. psychiatrise
  7. psychiatrised
  8. psychiatrises
  9. psychiatrising
  10. psychiatrist
  11. psychiatristlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychiatrise (page history and authors); psychiatrize (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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