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scandalizes

scandalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scandalize.

Meaning of scandalize

Verb (1)

scandalize (third-person singular simple present scandalizes, present participle scandalizing, simple past and past participle scandalized)

  1. (transitive) To cause great offense to (someone); to shock with something scandalous.
    • Overhearing the lewd joke, the dowager gave a scandalized gasp.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To reproach.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To disgrace.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To libel; to create scandal about (someone or something).

Verb (2)

scandalize (third-person singular simple present scandalizes, present participle scandalizing, simple past and past participle scandalized)

  1. To reduce the area and efficiency of a sail by expedient means (e.g. slacking the peak and tricing up the tack) without properly reefing, thus slowing boat speed.
    • The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16

Questions about scandalizes

What is scandalizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scandalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scandalize.

Words near scandalizes in the dictionary

  1. scandalizations
  2. scandalize
  3. scandalized
  4. scandalizer
  5. scandalizers
  6. scandalizes
  7. scandalizeth
  8. scandalizing
  9. scandalizings
  10. scandalled
  11. scandalling

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