diplomatize

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verb

To engage in diplomacy.

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Meanings

verbdiplomatize (third-person singular simple present diplomatizes, present participle diplomatizing, simple past and past participle diplomatized)

present singular third person diplomatizes · participle present diplomatizing · participle past diplomatized · past diplomatized

  1. intransitiveTo engage in diplomacy.

    Without diplomatising to do so, with no effort to square her, none to bribe her to an attitude for which he would have had no use in her if it weren't sincere, he yet felt how he both held her and moved her by the felicity of his taking pity, all instinctively, on her just discernible depression.

    1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl
  2. transitiveTo effect by means of diplomacy.

Origin

From diplomat + -ize.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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