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theatricalise

theatricalise is the alternative spelling of theatricalize.

Meaning of theatricalize

Verb

theatricalize (third-person singular simple present theatricalizes, present participle theatricalizing, simple past and past participle theatricalized)

  1. (transitive) To render suitable for the theatre.
    • Theater does not expect us to simply stop theatricalizing; it knows that we can theatricalize its conditions as we can theatricalize any others.2016, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre, →ISBN, page 151

Forms of theatricalise

third-person singular presenttheatricalises
present participletheatricalising
past participletheatricalised
pasttheatricalised

Origin of theatricalise

From theatrical + -ise.

Questions about theatricalise

What is theatricalise the alternative spelling of?
Theatricalise is the alternative spelling of theatricalize.

Words near theatricalise in the dictionary

  1. theatrical film
  2. theatrical films
  3. theatrical prop
  4. theatrical props
  5. theatricalisation
  6. theatricalise
  7. theatricalised
  8. theatricalises
  9. theatricalising
  10. theatricalism
  11. theatricalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: theatricalise (page history and authors); theatricalize (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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