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cliticize

American  
[klit-uh-sahyz] / ˈklɪt əˌsaɪz /
especially British, cliticise

verb (used without object)

Linguistics.
cliticized, cliticizing

  1. to become attached to a word or phrase as a clitic.

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of cliticize

clitic + -ize

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