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tuberculize

tuberculize verb: to infect with tuberculosis.

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 tuberculize

third-person singular presenttuberculizes
present participletuberculizing
past participletuberculized
pasttuberculized

Questions about tuberculize

What does tuberculize mean?
Tuberculize means to infect with tuberculosis.
What part of speech is tuberculize?
Tuberculize is a verb.
What is the past tense of tuberculize?
The past tense of tuberculize is tuberculized.

Words near tuberculize in the dictionary

  1. tuberculised
  2. tuberculises
  3. tuberculising
  4. tuberculization
  5. tuberculizations
  6. tuberculize
  7. tuberculized
  8. tuberculizes
  9. tuberculizing
  10. tuberculocidal
  11. tuberculocidality

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