Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hostilize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hos-tilize
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"1794, Anna Seward, Letters of Anna Seward Letter 96, to Reverend T. S. Whalley. When England, Spain, Holland, and Russia united with the powers already hostilized against an impious nation, that had reduced robbery, murder, and profaneness to a cool and practical system, I thought there was the fairest prospect of their success ."
"March 4, 1815, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis C. Grey, Esq. if they go on checking, irritating, injuring and hostilizing us, they will force on us the motto “Carthago delenda est”."
"Protestants, who, considering the present Government, Catholic and clerical, think themselves obliged to hostilize it and make propaganda against it."

Etymology

From hostile + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hostile

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

hostilizes (present, singular) hostilizing (participle, present) hostilized (participle, past) hostilized (past) hostilise (alternative)

Questions

What does hostilize mean?: To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
Where does hostilize come from?: From hostile + -ize.

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