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spermatise

spermatise is the alternative form of spermatize.

Meaning of spermatize

Verb

spermatize (third-person singular simple present spermatizes, present participle spermatizing, simple past and past participle spermatized)

  1. (obsolete) To produce or emit sperm.
    • ... to spermatize; to shed, eiect, or iniect sperme.1611, Randle Cotgrave, “Spermatiser”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues

Forms of spermatise

third-person singular presentspermatises
present participlespermatising
past participlespermatised
pastspermatised

Questions about spermatise

What is spermatise the alternative form of?
Spermatise is the alternative form of spermatize.

Words near spermatise in the dictionary

  1. spermatids
  2. spermatiferous
  3. spermatin
  4. spermatiophore
  5. spermatiophores
  6. spermatise
  7. spermatised
  8. spermatises
  9. spermatising
  10. spermatism
  11. spermatist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spermatise (page history and authors); spermatize (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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