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rusticise

rusticise is the alternative spelling of rusticize.

Meaning of rusticize

Verb

rusticize (third-person singular simple present rusticizes, present participle rusticizing, simple past and past participle rusticized)

  1. (transitive) To make (something or someone) rustic.

Forms of rusticise

third-person singular presentrusticises
present participlerusticising
past participlerusticised
pastrusticised

Origin of rusticise

From rustic + -ise.

Questions about rusticise

What is rusticise the alternative spelling of?
Rusticise is the alternative spelling of rusticize.

Words near rusticise in the dictionary

  1. rusticatio
  2. rustication
  3. rustications
  4. rusticator
  5. rusticators
  6. rusticise
  7. rusticised
  8. rusticises
  9. rusticising
  10. rusticism
  11. rusticisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rusticise (page history and authors); rusticize (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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