cowardize

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verb

To render (someone or something) cowardly, to cause to become a coward.

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Meanings

cowardize1

nouncowardize (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of cowardice.

    The ſecond property of your excellent ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled) left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the invvards to the partes extreames, […]

    c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]

cowardize2

verbcowardize (third-person singular simple present cowardizes, present participle cowardizing, simple past and past participle cowardized)

present singular third person cowardizes · participle present cowardizing · participle past cowardized · past cowardized

  1. transitiveTo render (someone or something) cowardly, to cause to become a coward.

Origin

From coward + -ize.

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APA

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

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“cowardize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowardize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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

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