Meaning

1 senses

  1. To make legitimate.

    legitimieren

    легитими́роватьlegitimírovatʹ, легитимизи́роватьlegitimizírovatʹ, узако́ниватьuzakónivatʹ

    легітимізува́тиlehitymizuváty, узако́нюватиuzakónjuvaty, узако́нитиuzakónyty

    make legal

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Certain things are easier to legalize than legitimize.

    shekitten · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. History shows that leaders do not emerge in a vacuum. They are the product of an environment that legitimizes them.

    carlosalberto · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. Everything is fomented in the Algerian black laboratories to drive Kabylia into the chaos that would legitimize a state of siege.

    Sifaks · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to make legitimate:
Русский
By meaning 1
to make legitimate:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make legitimate:

Forms

legitimizes, legitimizing, legitimized, legitimized
Base formlegitimize · to legitimize
3rd person singularlegitimizes
Present participlelegitimizing
Past simplelegitimized
Past participlelegitimized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylegitimize
he, she, itlegitimizes

Past simpleLesson

all personslegitimized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill legitimize

Synonyms

8 synonyms
legitimateB2
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words
Deriveddelegitimizeillegitimatizeillegitimizelegitimizablelegitimizationlegitimizerrelegitimize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
legitimacylegitimateB2leglesslegumeleisureA2leisurelyB2
legitimize — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto