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supervize

supervize is the obsolete spelling of supervise.

Meaning of supervise

Verb

supervise (third-person singular simple present supervises, present participle supervising, simple past and past participle supervised)

  1. (transitive) To oversee or direct (a task or organization).
    • Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.
  2. (intransitive) To oversee a task, organization, etc.; to provide supervision; to act as a supervisor.
    • Under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, doctors can’t claim payment from the government for a Covid-19 vaccination provided in their clinic by a nurse, unless a GP is on the premises to supervise.2022 August 1, Melissa Davey, “NSW town’s pop-up Covid vaccine clinic almost called off because of ‘ridiculous’ Medicare rule”, in The Guardian
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
    • Let me supervise the canzonet.1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, IV. ii. 120

Forms of supervize

third-person singular presentsupervizes
present participlesupervizing
past participlesupervized
pastsupervized

Words formed from supervize

Questions about supervize

What is supervize the obsolete spelling of?
Supervize is the obsolete spelling of supervise.

Words near supervize in the dictionary

  1. supervive
  2. supervived
  3. superviving
  4. supervixen
  5. supervixens
  6. supervize
  7. supervized
  8. supervizes
  9. supervizing
  10. supervoid
  11. supervoids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supervize (page history and authors); supervise (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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