Meaning

2 senses

  1. To make (a tone) temporarily become tonic.

  2. To produce tone or tension in (e.g. a muscle).

Origin

From tonic + -ize.

From tonic + -ize.

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Forms

tonicizes, tonicizing, tonicized, tonicized
Base formtonicize · to tonicize
3rd person singulartonicizes
Present participletonicizing
Past simpletonicized
Past participletonicized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytonicize
he, she, ittonicizes

Past simpleLesson

all personstonicized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tonicize

Word family

1 related words
Relatedtonicization

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tongueB1tonictonightA1tonnetonsil

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