Meaning

2 senses

  1. To invest with imperial authority, character, or style.

  2. To bring to the form of an empire.

    The competition to imperialize foreign lands was another cause of World War I.

Forms

imperializes, imperializing, imperialized, imperialized
Base formimperialize · to imperialize
3rd person singularimperializes
Present participleimperializing
Past simpleimperialized
Past participleimperialized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyimperialize
he, she, itimperializes

Past simpleLesson

all personsimperialized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill imperialize

Word family

2 related words
Relateddeimperializeimperialization

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
imperialimperialismimperialistimpermeableimpermissibleimpersonateC1impersonationC1
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