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vampirise

vampirise is the alternative form of vampirize.

Meaning of vampirize

Verb

vampirize (third-person singular simple present vampirizes, present participle vampirizing, simple past and past participle vampirized)

  1. (transitive) To make into a vampire.
    Synonyms:
    sire, turn
  2. (transitive) To drain the resources or life force of.

Forms of vampirise

third-person singular presentvampirises
present participlevampirising
past participlevampirised
pastvampirised

Origin of vampirise

From vampire + -ise.

Questions about vampirise

What is vampirise the alternative form of?
Vampirise is the alternative form of vampirize.

Words near vampirise in the dictionary

  1. vampirinas
  2. vampirine
  3. vampiring
  4. vampirisation
  5. vampirisations
  6. vampirise
  7. vampirised
  8. vampirish
  9. vampirising
  10. vampirism
  11. vampirisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vampirise (page history and authors); vampirize (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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