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PORCELAINIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does porcelainize mean?
• PORCELAINIZE (verb)
The verb PORCELAINIZE has 1 sense:
1. coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface
Familiarity information: PORCELAINIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they porcelainize
... he / she / it porcelainizes
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Past simple: porcelainized
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Past participle: porcelainized
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-ing form: porcelainizing
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Past simple: porcelainized
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Past participle: porcelainized
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-ing form: porcelainizing
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Sense 1
Meaning:
Coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "porcelainize" is one way to...):
coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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