Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bastardize
Participle: bastardized
Gerund: bastardizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bastardize |
| you | bastardize |
| he;she;it | bastardizes |
| we | bastardize |
| you | bastardize |
| they | bastardize |
Perfect
| I | have bastardized |
| you | have bastardized |
| he;she;it | has bastardized |
| we | have bastardized |
| you | have bastardized |
| they | have bastardized |
Past
| I | bastardized |
| you | bastardized |
| he;she;it | bastardized |
| we | bastardized |
| you | bastardized |
| they | bastardized |
Pluperfect
| I | had bastardized |
| you | had bastardized |
| he;she;it | had bastardized |
| we | had bastardized |
| you | had bastardized |
| they | had bastardized |
Future
| I | will bastardize |
| you | will bastardize |
| he;she;it | will bastardize |
| we | will bastardize |
| you | will bastardize |
| they | will bastardize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bastardized |
| you | will have bastardized |
| he;she;it | will have bastardized |
| we | will have bastardized |
| you | will have bastardized |
| they | will have bastardized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bastardize |
| you | bastardize |
| he;she;it | bastardize |
| we | bastardize |
| you | bastardize |
| they | bastardize |
Perfect
| I | have bastardized |
| you | have bastardized |
| he;she;it | have bastardized |
| we | have bastardized |
| you | have bastardized |
| they | have bastardized |
Imperfect
| I | bastardized |
| you | bastardized |
| he;she;it | bastardized |
| we | bastardized |
| you | bastardized |
| they | bastardized |
Pluperfect
| I | had bastardized |
| you | had bastardized |
| he;she;it | had bastardized |
| we | had bastardized |
| you | had bastardized |
| they | had bastardized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bastardize |
| you | would bastardize |
| he;she;it | would bastardize |
| we | would bastardize |
| you | would bastardize |
| they | would bastardize |
Perfect
| I | would have bastardized |
| you | would have bastardized |
| he;she;it | would have bastardized |
| we | would have bastardized |
| you | would have bastardized |
| they | would have bastardized |
Imperative
| you | bastardize |
| we | Let's bastardize |
| you | bastardize |
Verbs conjugated like 'bastardize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bastardize'
abastardize,
bastardise,
dastardize,
abastardise,
embastardize,
imbastardize,
astatize,
bacterize,
barbarize,
bastard,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin bastardus
3. Old French bastardbor.
4. Middle English bastard
5. English bastard
6. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
8. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
9. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
10. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
11. Late Latin -izōder.
12. Middle French -iserbor.
13. Middle English -isen
14. English -ize
15. English bastardize
16. From bastard + -ize.
Sample Sentences
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Our law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if it be born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. [1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:]
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The case of a king who falsely charges his wife with adultery, seeks to execute her, and bastardizes his daughter resonates strongly with the plot of The Winter's Tale, and in fact suggests a reading of the play as an allegory of Anne's downfall and Elizabeth's bastardization, seventy-five years after the fact. [1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page 96 of 89–118:]
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The simplified word processor is a less-functional, bastardized version of the full program.
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2017, Douglas Charles Kane, Beren and Lúthien (2017) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, in Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 5,
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The third potential audience is the general public at large, who either never has read any of Tolkien’s books or perhaps read The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit long ago, but whose knowledge about Tolkien’s created secondary universe comes, if at all, mostly from seeing Peter Jackson’s bastardized adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit.
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I should / have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the / firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 2, lines 130–132:]