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spectacularize

spectacularize verb: to make spectacular.

Verb

spectacularize (third-person singular simple present spectacularizes, present participle spectacularizing, simple past and past participle spectacularized)

  1. (transitive) To make spectacular.
    • While I believe that the documentary format is a crucial part of media journalism, I think it in dubious taste to tell this particular set of stories in a context so full of spectacularizing visual tricks and special effects.2015 November 20, “The 11.8.15 Issue”, in New York Times

Forms of spectacularize

third-person singular presentspectacularizes
present participlespectacularizing
past participlespectacularized
pastspectacularized

Origin of spectacularize

From spectacular + -ize.

Questions about spectacularize

What does spectacularize mean?
Spectacularize means to make spectacular.
What part of speech is spectacularize?
Spectacularize is a verb.
What is the past tense of spectacularize?
The past tense of spectacularize is spectacularized.

Words near spectacularize in the dictionary

  1. spectacular rustgills
  2. spectacularism
  3. spectacularisms
  4. spectacularities
  5. spectacularity
  6. spectacularize
  7. spectacularized
  8. spectacularizes
  9. spectacularizing
  10. spectacularly
  11. spectacularness

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