"criticise" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: criticises [present, singular, third-person], criticising [participle, present], criticised [participle, past], criticised [past]
Etymology: From critic + -ise, see criticize. Etymology templates: {{af|en|critic|-ise}} critic + -ise Head templates: {{en-verb}} criticise (third-person singular simple present criticises, present participle criticising, simple past and past participle criticised)
  1. Alternative spelling of criticize. Tags: UK, alt-of, alternative, intransitive, transitive Alternative form of: criticize Derived forms: criticisingly, uncriticised

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2009 March 25, Jonathan Freedland, “Call it 9/15 - the day the crucial divide in the post-Blair/Brown era took shape”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Both Cruddas and Collins are decentralisers, criticising New Labour for hoarding too much power in Whitehall.",
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          "ref": "2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:",
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          "ref": "2017, Allison Sherman, Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard, Routledge, →ISBN:",
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