ITALICISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does italicise mean? 

• ITALICISE (verb)
  The verb ITALICISE has 1 sense:

1. print in italics

  Familiarity information: ITALICISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ITALICISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they italicise    ... he / she / it italicises   
Past simple: italicised   
Past participle: italicised   
-ing form: italicising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Print in italics

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

italicise; italicize

Hypernyms (to "italicise" is one way to...):

impress; print (reproduce by printing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

italic (a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right)

italic (a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right)