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respectabilise

respectabilise is the alternative form of respectabilize.

Meaning of respectabilize

Verb

respectabilize (third-person singular simple present respectabilizes, present participle respectabilizing, simple past and past participle respectabilized)

  1. (transitive) To make respectable; to give an appearance of respectability.
    • There's not a notion in this book that has a more frightful, or ridiculous, mien than had the notion of human footprints in rocks, when that now respectabilized ruffian, or clown, was first heard from.1919, Charles Fort, chapter 11, in The Book of the Damned

Forms of respectabilise

third-person singular presentrespectabilises
present participlerespectabilising
past participlerespectabilised
pastrespectabilised

Questions about respectabilise

What is respectabilise the alternative form of?
Respectabilise is the alternative form of respectabilize.

Words near respectabilise in the dictionary

  1. respecks
  2. respecs
  3. respect
  4. respect order
  5. respect orders
  6. respectabilise
  7. respectabilised
  8. respectabilises
  9. respectabilising
  10. respectabilities
  11. respectability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: respectabilise (page history and authors); respectabilize (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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