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whiskeyize

whiskeyize verb: to cause to use whiskey excessively.

Verb

whiskeyize (third-person singular simple present whiskeyizes, present participle whiskeyizing, simple past and past participle whiskeyized)

  1. to cause to use whiskey excessively.
    • I admit there are some recent importations of Catholics who would like to Germanize, Irishize, and whiskeyize America.1899, The Devil in Robes, Or the Sin of Priests: The Gory Hand of Catholicism Stayed; the Prayers of Protestants Heard, page 318
    • It has whiskeyized, brutalized and damned the American Indian.1900, William Henry Thorne, The Globe, page 56

Forms of whiskeyize

third-person singular presentwhiskeyizes
present participlewhiskeyizing
past participlewhiskeyized
pastwhiskeyized

Origin of whiskeyize

From whiskey + -ize.

Questions about whiskeyize

What does whiskeyize mean?
Whiskeyize means to cause to use whiskey excessively.
What part of speech is whiskeyize?
Whiskeyize is a verb.
What is the past tense of whiskeyize?
The past tense of whiskeyize is whiskeyized.

Words near whiskeyize in the dictionary

  1. whiskeyana
  2. whiskeyed
  3. whiskeyfied
  4. whiskeyful
  5. whiskeygrass
  6. whiskeyize
  7. whiskeyjack
  8. whiskeyjacks
  9. Whiskeyleaks
  10. whiskeyless
  11. whiskeylike

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