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tubercularize

tubercularize verb: to infect with tuberculosis.

Verb

tubercularize (third-person singular simple present tubercularizes, present participle tubercularizing, simple past and past participle tubercularized)

  1. (transitive) To infect with tuberculosis.

Forms of tubercularize

third-person singular presenttubercularizes
present participletubercularizing
past participletubercularized
pasttubercularized

Origin of tubercularize

From tubercular + -ize.

Questions about tubercularize

What does tubercularize mean?
Tubercularize means to infect with tuberculosis.
What part of speech is tubercularize?
Tubercularize is a verb.
What is the past tense of tubercularize?
The past tense of tubercularize is tubercularized.

Words near tubercularize in the dictionary

  1. tubercles
  2. tubercula
  3. tubercular
  4. tuberculariaceous
  5. tubercularization
  6. tubercularize
  7. tubercularized
  8. tubercularizes
  9. tubercularizing
  10. tubercularly
  11. tuberculars

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