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youthfulize

youthfulize verb: to make youthful.

Verb

youthfulize (third-person singular simple present youthfulizes, present participle youthfulizing, simple past and past participle youthfulized)

  1. (transitive) To make youthful.
    • The question is not whether a preacher is pious, prayerful, faithful, sound in faith and a winner of souls […] Is he smart? That’s the question. […] will he […] as occasion may require, let off good round whoppers, thumping stories, and rouse us all up? Then he is the man for us. He will fill the...1862 December 16, “The Age of Liars”, in Advent Herald, volume 23, number 50, Boston, page 396
    • Some plastic surgeons, advertising a customized approach, promise “wrinkles youthfulized.” This, apparently, leaves the patient with young wrinkles.1982, Edwin Newman, “Language on the Skids”, in Paul Eschholz et al., editors, Language Awareness, 3rd edition, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 21

Forms of youthfulize

third-person singular presentyouthfulizes
present participleyouthfulizing
past participleyouthfulized
pastyouthfulized
alternative formyouthfulise

Origin of youthfulize

From youthful + -ize.

Questions about youthfulize

What does youthfulize mean?
Youthfulize means to make youthful.
What part of speech is youthfulize?
Youthfulize is a verb.
What is the past tense of youthfulize?
The past tense of youthfulize is youthfulized.

Words near youthfulize in the dictionary

  1. youthful rivers
  2. youthfulise
  3. youthfulised
  4. youthfulises
  5. youthfulising
  6. youthfulize
  7. youthfulized
  8. youthfulizes
  9. youthfulizing
  10. youthfully
  11. youthfulness

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