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transitivize

transitivize verb: to make transitive.

Verb

transitivize (third-person singular simple present transitivizes, present participle transitivizing, simple past and past participle transitivized)

  1. (transitive) To make transitive.
  2. (intransitive) To become transitive.

Forms of transitivize

third-person singular presenttransitivizes
present participletransitivizing
past participletransitivized
pasttransitivized

Origin of transitivize

From transitive + -ize.

Words formed from transitivize

Questions about transitivize

What does transitivize mean?
Transitivize means to make transitive.
What part of speech is transitivize?
Transitivize is a verb.
What is the past tense of transitivize?
The past tense of transitivize is transitivized.

Words near transitivize in the dictionary

  1. transitivism
  2. transitivities
  3. transitivity
  4. transitivizable
  5. transitivization
  6. transitivize
  7. transitivized
  8. transitivizer
  9. transitivizers
  10. transitivizes
  11. transitivizing

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