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respectabilizing

respectabilizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about respectabilizing

What is respectabilizing the present participle and gerund of?
Respectabilizing is the present participle and gerund of respectabilize.

Words near respectabilizing in the dictionary

  1. respectability
  2. respectability politics
  3. respectabilize
  4. respectabilized
  5. respectabilizes
  6. respectabilizing
  7. respectable
  8. respectableness
  9. respectables
  10. respectablize
  11. respectablized

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