英语词汇“cretinize”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Word origin

[1855–60; cretin + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boilerplate, keyword, output, pickup, specialist-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize)

单词	cretinize
释义	cretinize in British English or cretinise (ˈkrɛtɪˌnaɪz) verb (transitive) old-fashioned to cause (a person) to be a cretin or cretinous cretinize in American English (ˈkritnˌaiz, esp Brit ˈkret-) transitive verb or intransitive verbWord forms: -ized, -izing offensive to cause (a person) to be incapable of normal intelligence or sound judgment Also esp Brit cretinise Word origin [1855–60; cretin + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boilerplate, keyword, output, pickup, specialist-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize)
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