Meaning

4 senses

  1. To form a protective surface on (a ferrous metal) by coating with aluminum powder and then heating.

  2. (dated, intransitive)To follow a diet that focuses on the number of calories in food.

  3. (transitive)To provide information about the number of calories in (a food item).

  4. (transitive)To make (food) with high-calorie ingredients.

Origin

From Latin calor (“heat”) + -ize. From calorie + -ize.

From Latin calor (“heat”) + -ize.

From calorie + -ize.

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Forms

calorizes, calorizing, calorized, calorized
Base formcalorize · to calorize
3rd person singularcalorizes
Present participlecalorizing
Past simplecalorized
Past participlecalorized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycalorize
he, she, itcalorizes

Past simpleLesson

all personscalorized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave calorized
he, she, ithas calorized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill calorize

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcalorizer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
calmnessB1caloriccalorieC1calquecalumny
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