Word.ws English Dictionary

whitenizes

whitenizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of whitenize.

Meaning of whitenize

Verb

whitenize (third-person singular simple present whitenizes, present participle whitenizing, simple past and past participle whitenized)

  1. (transitive) To adapt to the cultural norms of white people.
    • And most of the major characters are made into puppets to prove the thesis that America "whitenizes" blacks and converts everyone else into "freaks."1982, Best Sellers, volume 42, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, page 85
    Synonyms:
    whitify

Questions about whitenizes

What is whitenizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Whitenizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of whitenize.

Words near whitenizes in the dictionary

  1. whitenings
  2. whitenization
  3. whitenizations
  4. whitenize
  5. whitenized
  6. whitenizes
  7. whitenizing
  8. whitenoise
  9. whitenose
  10. whitens
  11. whiteout

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whitenizes (page history and authors); whitenize (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “whitenizes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/whitenizes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.