libellize

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verb

To libel.

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Meanings

verblibellize (third-person singular simple present libellizes, present participle libellizing, simple past and past participle libellized)

present singular third person libellizes · participle present libellizing · participle past libellized · past libellized

  1. rareTo libel.

    "Yeah, you got no call to libellize folks that way, " Jake Biddle put in censoriously.

    1927, B.M. Bower, White Wolves, page 29
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    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:

    1621, Thomas Robinson, The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene: A Legendary Poem in Two Parts

    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.

    2005, BG, Harry

Origin

From libel + -ize.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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