anticize

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verb

To perform antics.

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

verbanticize (third-person singular simple present anticizes, present participle anticizing, simple past and past participle anticized)

present singular third person anticizes · participle present anticizing · participle past anticized · past anticized

  1. intransitiverareTo perform antics.

    Could the orb sweep those puny particles It just half-lights at distance, hardly leads I' the leash — sweep out each speck of them from space They anticize in with their days and nights […]

    1871, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau
    1 more example

    Most musicians are convinced that this kind of information is designed for doctors and dentists, whom they regard as hopelessly addicted to stereophonic anticizing, right down to locomotive and automobile noises.

    1966, The Music Journal, volume 24, page 79

Origin

From antic + -ize.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anticize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticize.

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