Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

libellize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: li-bel-lize
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Example Sentences

"In faire Encomiasticks to commend, They count it flattery; to reprehend In sharpe-fang'd Satyres, is to libellize, To raise vile slaunders, and false infamies:"
""Yeah, you got no call to libellize folks that way, " Jake Biddle put in censoriously."
"Further, this morning she had done her “trial and sentence” in front of the other boys and so had “libellized” him and she would pay for it."

Etymology

From libel + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: libel

Inflected Forms

libellizes (present, singular) libellizing (participle, present) libellized (participle, past) libellized (past)

Questions

What does libellize mean?: To libel.
Where does libellize come from?: From libel + -ize.

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