Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To make legitimate.

    make legal

  2. (transitive)To legalize.

Forms

legitimatizes, legitimatizing, legitimatized, legitimatized
Base formlegitimatize · to legitimatize
3rd person singularlegitimatizes
Present participlelegitimatizing
Past simplelegitimatized
Past participlelegitimatized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylegitimatize
he, she, itlegitimatizes

Past simpleLesson

all personslegitimatized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill legitimatize

Synonyms

8 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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