compassionize

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verb

To make compassionate.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

verbcompassionize (third-person singular simple present compassionizes, present participle compassionizing, simple past and past participle compassionized)

present singular third person compassionizes · participle present compassionizing · participle past compassionized · past compassionized

  1. raretransitiveTo make compassionate.

    We want people to be compassionized by the quilt...it has such visual impact. The quilt does the work, not us.

    1988 February 14, Elizabeth Pincus, quoting Scott Lago, “AIDS Quilt, Still Evolving, Soon To Tour Nationally”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 3
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    Yet the volumes of laws and significant taxation apparently needed to compassionize "kufr capitalism" would mean a great deal of forbidding - forbidding low wages, long working hours, unsafe this and that.

    2002 October 14, elmer swanson, “Forbidding what God has allowed.”, in soc.religion.islam (Usenet)
  2. intransitiverareTo be compassionate, sympathize.

    The inference being that I'm not compassionizing properly when I offer fix-its. JEEZ. I'm really TRYING to be helpful and to be square and obey the law of the pack.

    1998 May 26, MegaLiz, “Any gay Subgeniuses!?”, in alt.slack.devo (Usenet)
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    Because we, as aspects of humanity, which is aspect to spiritual existence have --in its human culiminated ^([sic]) potential-to-kinetic Te consciousness, empathize and compassionize with like-kinds -- potential or kinetic

    1997 March 29, Miller Jew, “On the Rancho Santa Fe cult suicide”, in alt.philosophy.taoism (Usenet)

Origin

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APA

compassionize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/compassionize

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Chicago

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

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