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somatizing

somatizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about somatizing

What is somatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Somatizing is the present participle and gerund of somatize.

Words near somatizing in the dictionary

  1. somatization
  2. somatizations
  3. somatize
  4. somatized
  5. somatizes
  6. somatizing
  7. somato-
  8. somatoblast
  9. somatoblasts
  10. somatocentric
  11. somatochart

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