lunatize

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verb

To turn someone into a lunatic.

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Meanings

verblunatize (third-person singular simple present lunatizes, present participle lunatizing, simple past and past participle lunatized)

present singular third person lunatizes · participle present lunatizing · participle past lunatized · past lunatized

  1. raretransitiveTo turn someone into a lunatic.

    He will understand — even if he pretends ignorance, as the idea of being lunatized has never been wholly absent from his mind.

    1962, Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's Wife
    1 more example

    The spiritual disease of the ego which consists in continuously sounding its own note produces madness; and indeed the monotony of it almost lunatizes others also.

    1893, “The Ascent of Life”, in The Arena, volume 9, page 486
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APA

lunatize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunatize

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“lunatize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunatize. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lunatize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunatize.

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