scandalize
verb /ˈskændəlaɪz/
/ˈskændəlaɪz/
(British English also scandalise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they scandalize | /ˈskændəlaɪz/ /ˈskændəlaɪz/ |
| he / she / it scandalizes | /ˈskændəlaɪzɪz/ /ˈskændəlaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple scandalized | /ˈskændəlaɪzd/ /ˈskændəlaɪzd/ |
| past participle scandalized | /ˈskændəlaɪzd/ /ˈskændəlaɪzd/ |
| -ing form scandalizing | /ˈskændəlaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈskændəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- scandalize somebody to do something that shocks people very much synonym outrage
- She scandalized her family with her extravagant lifestyle.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘make a public scandal of’): from French scandaliser or ecclesiastical Latin scandalizare, from Greek skandalizein.