legitimize
To make legitimateTo make legitimate.
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» Certain things are easier to legalize than legitimize.
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Examples
3 sentencesCertain things are easier to legalize than legitimize.
History shows that leaders do not emerge in a vacuum. They are the product of an environment that legitimizes them.
Everything is fomented in the Algerian black laboratories to drive Kabylia into the chaos that would legitimize a state of siege.
Meaning
1 sensesTo make legitimate.
legitimieren
легитими́роватьlegitimírovatʹ, легитимизи́роватьlegitimizírovatʹ, узако́ниватьuzakónivatʹ
легітимізува́тиlehitymizuváty, узако́нюватиuzakónjuvaty, узако́нитиuzakónyty
- make legal
Forms
legitimizes, legitimizing, legitimized, legitimizedregular · Lesson
| Base form | legitimize · to legitimize |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | legitimizes |
| Present participle | legitimizing |
| Past simple | legitimized |
| Past participle | legitimized |
Tenses
legitimize · legitimized · will legitimize · have legitimizedPoint at a form to see it in a sentence.Tap a form to see it in a sentence.
Synonyms
8 synonyms- make legal:legalizelegalisedecriminalizedecriminaliselegitimiselegitimatelegitimatizelegitimatise
Word family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
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