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scandalizing

scandalizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Adjective

scandalizing (comparative more scandalizing, superlative most scandalizing)

  1. Tending to cause a scandal; scandalous.

Noun

scandalizing (plural scandalizings)

  1. scandalization
    • Hegel is averse to moralism, yes, that is true; that is, he is averse to sermons, to ingenuous scandalizings, to the charlatanry of professional morality.2006, Luigi Luzzatti, God in Freedom: Studies in the Relations Between Church and State

Forms of scandalizing

Adjective
comparativemore scandalizing
superlativemost scandalizing
Noun
pluralscandalizings

Questions about scandalizing

What does scandalizing mean?
Scandalizing means tending to cause a scandal; scandalous.
What is scandalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Scandalizing is the present participle and gerund of scandalize.
What part of speech is scandalizing?
Scandalizing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near scandalizing in the dictionary

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

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