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vanitizes

vanitizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of vanitize.

Meaning of vanitize

Verb

vanitize (third-person singular simple present vanitizes, present participle vanitizing, simple past and past participle vanitized)

  1. (ambitransitive) To embellish for reasons of vanity.
    • "I told her she was a great goose," said Goda, who like a sensible being was snugly tucked up in bed; "it is a great deal too cold to vanitize."1876, Fontnell S. Chad: A Reminiscence, J. Masters and Co., page 43, […] when I went up to administer to Carrie a small lecture on imprudence, the vain child was still at the glass, trying the effect...

Questions about vanitizes

What is vanitizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Vanitizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of vanitize.

Words near vanitizes in the dictionary

  1. vanitases
  2. vanities
  3. vanitiolide
  4. vanitize
  5. vanitized
  6. vanitizes
  7. vanitizing
  8. vanitories
  9. vanitory
  10. vanitous
  11. vanitously

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