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respectablizing

respectablizing is the present participle and gerund of respectablize.

Meaning of respectablize

Verb

respectablize (third-person singular simple present respectablizes, present participle respectablizing, simple past and past participle respectablized)

  1. (transitive) To make respectable.

Questions about respectablizing

What is respectablizing the present participle and gerund of?
Respectablizing is the present participle and gerund of respectablize.

Words near respectablizing in the dictionary

  1. respectableness
  2. respectables
  3. respectablize
  4. respectablized
  5. respectablizes
  6. respectablizing
  7. respectably
  8. respectant
  9. respected
  10. respecter
  11. respecter of persons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: respectablizing (page history and authors); respectablize (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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