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veteranized

veteranized is the simple past and past participle of veteranize.

Meaning of veteranize

Verb

veteranize (third-person singular simple present veteranizes, present participle veteranizing, simple past and past participle veteranized)

  1. (transitive) To make veteran.
  2. (US, dated, intransitive) To reenlist for service as a soldier.
    • About this time we were much embarrassed by a general order of the War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize"1875, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman

Questions about veteranized

What is veteranized the simple past and past participle of?
Veteranized is the simple past and past participle of veteranize.

Words near veteranized in the dictionary

  1. veteran cars
  2. veterancy
  3. veteraness
  4. veteranesses
  5. veteranize
  6. veteranized
  7. veteranizes
  8. veteranizing
  9. Veteranos
  10. veterans
  11. Veterans Day

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Adapted from Wiktionary: veteranized (page history and authors); veteranize (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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