Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to theorize
Participle: theorized
Gerund: theorizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | theorize |
| you | theorize |
| he;she;it | theorizes |
| we | theorize |
| you | theorize |
| they | theorize |
Perfect
| I | have theorized |
| you | have theorized |
| he;she;it | has theorized |
| we | have theorized |
| you | have theorized |
| they | have theorized |
Past
| I | theorized |
| you | theorized |
| he;she;it | theorized |
| we | theorized |
| you | theorized |
| they | theorized |
Pluperfect
| I | had theorized |
| you | had theorized |
| he;she;it | had theorized |
| we | had theorized |
| you | had theorized |
| they | had theorized |
Future
| I | will theorize |
| you | will theorize |
| he;she;it | will theorize |
| we | will theorize |
| you | will theorize |
| they | will theorize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have theorized |
| you | will have theorized |
| he;she;it | will have theorized |
| we | will have theorized |
| you | will have theorized |
| they | will have theorized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | theorize |
| you | theorize |
| he;she;it | theorize |
| we | theorize |
| you | theorize |
| they | theorize |
Perfect
| I | have theorized |
| you | have theorized |
| he;she;it | have theorized |
| we | have theorized |
| you | have theorized |
| they | have theorized |
Imperfect
| I | theorized |
| you | theorized |
| he;she;it | theorized |
| we | theorized |
| you | theorized |
| they | theorized |
Pluperfect
| I | had theorized |
| you | had theorized |
| he;she;it | had theorized |
| we | had theorized |
| you | had theorized |
| they | had theorized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would theorize |
| you | would theorize |
| he;she;it | would theorize |
| we | would theorize |
| you | would theorize |
| they | would theorize |
Perfect
| I | would have theorized |
| you | would have theorized |
| he;she;it | would have theorized |
| we | would have theorized |
| you | would have theorized |
| they | would have theorized |
Imperative
| you | theorize |
| we | Let's theorize |
| you | theorize |
Verbs conjugated like 'theorize'
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 'theorize'
theorise,
etherize,
otherize,
retheorize,
rhetorize,
theoretize,
tutorize,
aphorize,
arborize,
atheize,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From theory + -ize. First use appears c. 1599 in the text A pil to purge melancholie.
Sample Sentences
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Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago. [2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257:]
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There are processes of collective individuation that produce the transindividual in the course of a process of transindividuation (which Simondon does not theorize as such). [2018, Bernard Stiegler, Automatic Society: The Future of Work, page 152:]
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Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning. [2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 188:]
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The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager. [2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2022:]