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tuberculise

tuberculise is the alternative form of tuberculize.

Meaning of tuberculize

Verb

tuberculize (third-person singular simple present tuberculizes, present participle tuberculizing, simple past and past participle tuberculized)

  1. (transitive) To infect with tuberculosis.
  2. (intransitive) To undergo the changes, such as softening, that are characteristic of a tubercle.

Forms of tuberculise

third-person singular presenttuberculises
present participletuberculising
past participletuberculised
pasttuberculised

Questions about tuberculise

What is tuberculise the alternative form of?
Tuberculise is the alternative form of tuberculize.

Words near tuberculise in the dictionary

  1. tuberculinizes
  2. tuberculinizing
  3. tuberculins
  4. tuberculisation
  5. tuberculisations
  6. tuberculise
  7. tuberculised
  8. tuberculises
  9. tuberculising
  10. tuberculization
  11. tuberculizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tuberculise (page history and authors); tuberculize (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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