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secularize

secularize verb: to make secular.

Verb

secularize (third-person singular simple present secularizes, present participle secularizing, simple past and past participle secularized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To make secular.

Forms of secularize

third-person singular presentsecularizes
present participlesecularizing
past participlesecularized
pastsecularized
alternative formsecularise

Origin of secularize

From secular + -ize.

Words formed from secularize

Questions about secularize

What does secularize mean?
Secularize means to make secular.
What part of speech is secularize?
Secularize is a verb.
What is the past tense of secularize?
The past tense of secularize is secularized.

Words near secularize in the dictionary

  1. secularities
  2. secularity
  3. secularizable
  4. secularization
  5. secularizations
  6. secularize
  7. secularized
  8. secularizer
  9. secularizers
  10. secularizes
  11. secularizing

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