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tangentializing

tangentializing is the present participle and gerund of tangentialize.

Meaning of tangentialize

Verb

tangentialize (third-person singular simple present tangentializes, present participle tangentializing, simple past and past participle tangentialized)

  1. (transitive) To make tangential; to bring or drive away from its natural course.
    • "[…] they're trying to get from start to finish, I will sort of tangentialize the conversation so people look at the journey in different ways, or with different possibilities."2002, Naomi Odenkirk, Mr. Show: What Happened? - Page 46

Questions about tangentializing

What is tangentializing the present participle and gerund of?
Tangentializing is the present participle and gerund of tangentialize.

Words near tangentializing in the dictionary

  1. tangentialities
  2. tangentiality
  3. tangentialize
  4. tangentialized
  5. tangentializes
  6. tangentializing
  7. tangentially
  8. tangenting
  9. tangenting off
  10. tangently
  11. tangentoid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tangentializing (page history and authors); tangentialize (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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