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RELATIVISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does relativise mean?
• RELATIVISE (verb)
The verb RELATIVISE has 1 sense:
1. consider or treat as relative
Familiarity information: RELATIVISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they relativise ... he / she / it relativises
Past simple: relativised
Past participle: relativised
-ing form: relativising
... he / she / it relativises Past simple: relativised
Past participle: relativised
-ing form: relativising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Consider or treat as relative
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
relativise; relativize
Hypernyms (to "relativise" is one way to...):
consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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