"meteorize" meaning in English

See meteorize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: meteorizes [present, singular, third-person], meteorizing [participle, present], meteorized [participle, past], meteorized [past]
Etymology: meteor + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|meteor|ize}} meteor + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} meteorize (third-person singular simple present meteorizes, present participle meteorizing, simple past and past participle meteorized)
  1. To weather
    Sense id: en-meteorize-en-verb-hWF2n-Wt
  2. (poetic, archaic) To ascend in vapours; to take the form of a meteor. Tags: archaic, poetic
    Sense id: en-meteorize-en-verb-ql2JgdJ~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: meteorization

Inflected forms

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