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somatise

somatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of somatize.

Meaning of somatize

Verb

somatize (third-person singular simple present somatizes, present participle somatizing, simple past and past participle somatized)

  1. (transitive) To express (a psychological process) through physical symptoms such as pain or anxiety; to have a psychosomatic reaction to (e.g. a situation).
    • “[…] I don’t feel anything, naturally, since I’ve somatized the anxiety.”1988, Edmund White, chapter 6, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994

Forms of somatise

third-person singular presentsomatises
present participlesomatising
past participlesomatised
pastsomatised

Questions about somatise

What is somatise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Somatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of somatize.

Words near somatise in the dictionary

  1. somaticosplanchnic
  2. somatics
  3. somatiform
  4. somatisation
  5. somatisations
  6. somatise
  7. somatised
  8. somatising
  9. somatism
  10. somatisms
  11. somatist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somatise (page history and authors); somatize (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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