Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cancerize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: can-cer-ize
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make cancerous; to affect with cancer.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"We have just seen the C57 BI mice are sensitive to the extract of radioleukaemia—as young AkR are sensitive to superinfection with the AkR virus. This fact is not favourable to the proviral hypothesis. However, it does not rule it out if one supposes that the ‘virogenized’ cells may be different from those which the virus cancerizes."

Etymology

From cancer + -ize.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

cancerizes (present, singular) cancerizing (participle, present) cancerized (participle, past) cancerized (past)

Frequently Paired Words

cancerized

Questions

What does cancerize mean?: To make cancerous; to affect with cancer.
Where does cancerize come from?: From cancer + -ize.

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