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totalise

totalise is the alternative form of totalize.

Meaning of totalize

Verb

totalize (third-person singular simple present totalizes, present participle totalizing, simple past and past participle totalized)

  1. To combine parts to make a total.
    Synonyms:
    total
  2. To treat or construe something as universal, all-embracing, or comprehensive.
    • She's heard me rant enough times about how transmasculine people get thrown under the bus in this kind of totalizing discourse, where any and all masculinity must be sacrificed at the altar of entry-level feminism2021, Jasper Sanchez, The (Un)Popular Vote, page 117

Forms of totalise

third-person singular presenttotalises
present participletotalising
past participletotalised
pasttotalised

Origin of totalise

From total + -ise.

Questions about totalise

What is totalise the alternative form of?
Totalise is the alternative form of totalize.

Words near totalise in the dictionary

  1. totaling up
  2. totalisation
  3. totalisations
  4. totalisator
  5. totalisators
  6. totalise
  7. totalised
  8. totaliser
  9. totalisers
  10. totalises
  11. totalising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: totalise (page history and authors); totalize (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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