modalize

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verb

To become or cause to become modal

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Meanings

verbmodalize (third-person singular simple present modalizes, present participle modalizing, simple past and past participle modalized)

present singular third person modalizes · participle present modalizing · participle past modalized · past modalized

  1. To become or cause to become modal
    1 more example

    There is a new contradiction inside the gay community, which is that it's becoming more 'modalized', to use a technical term. I'm referring to the clone system, or any kind of system like it. The gay ghetto is not a real integration of gays into society. It's just a concentration of the gay population.

    1974 February 2, John Collis, Guy Hocquenghem, Joe Interrante, Mike Riegle, Charley Shively, Raphael Shively, Lionel Soukaz, “The Homosexual Century: In Search of Gay Memory”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 8

Origin

From modal + -ize.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

dimazole
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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