hybridize
Americanverb (used with object)
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hybridizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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hybridized,
past participle, past
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hybridizing
present participle
verb (used without object)
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hybridizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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hybridized,
past participle, past
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hybridizing
present participle
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to produce hybrids.
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to cause the production of hybrids by crossing.
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to form a double-stranded nucleic acid of two single strands of DNA or RNA, or one of each, by allowing the base pairs of the separate strands to form complementary bonds.
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to fuse two cells of different genotypes into a hybrid cell.
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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hybridistnoun
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hybridizationnoun
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hybridizernoun
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interhybridizeverb (used without object)
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hybridizableadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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hybridizesimple
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hybridizessimple
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have hybridizedperfect
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has hybridizedperfect
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am hybridizingprogressive
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are hybridizingprogressive
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is hybridizingprogressive
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have been hybridizingperfect progressive
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has been hybridizingperfect progressive
Past
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hybridizedsimple
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had hybridizedperfect
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was hybridizingprogressive
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were hybridizingprogressive
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had been hybridizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of hybridize
Example Sentences
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Some can still hybridize today to produce viable offspring.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024
The message being that if you’re going to hybridize, do it with the best.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
But when different species hybridize, beneficial genes that have evolved in one species can, through mating with the hybrid, migrate to the other species in the blink of an evolutionary eye.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2022
CBS’s grandfather of news magazines isn’t going anywhere, but it is facing competition from the likes of Vice News and even Frontline and other outlets that hybridize online reporting with a TV presence.
From Salon ● May 26, 2019
They were mostly self-pollinating: that is, the crop varieties could pollinate themselves and pass on their own desirable genes unchanged, instead of having to hybridize with other varieties less useful to humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The author hybridizes many forms of nonfiction to explore questions people have been asking about war for centuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022
“Where there’s love overflowing” hybridizes the White Cube and the Black Box — the normative settings for fine art and avant-garde theater, respectively.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
"Homecoming" hybridizes the concert film with a backstage exploration of intellectual consciousness.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2021
Ingalls’s work hybridizes classical literature and mid-century Americana.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Seed.—Nothing is more difficult in cabbage culture than raising pure seed; nothing hybridizes worse, and in nothing else is the effect worse.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
Ben Hania’s last film was another bold meshing of the factual and the fictionalized, the hybridized Oscar-nominated documentary “Four Daughters,” in which a real Tunisian family processes personal tragedy through role-playing for the director’s camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
Among fast cars, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X—a hybridized, 1,250-hp monster—debuts with a price tag starting just over 200 grand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
They say Atlanta’s newer skaters, who have wide access to regional variants, increasingly practice a hybridized type of skating that’s not rooted in any one tradition.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Abe’s focused approach to pleats and her hybridized design techniques have continued to evolve, maintaining Sacai’s position at the forefront of Japan’s fashion vanguard.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
We know from Sumerian and later depictions that onagers were regularly hunted, as well as captured and hybridized with donkeys and horses.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
As the pre-war avant-garde’s celebration of image-breaking, violent spectacle and weird hybridizing became muddy reality in the field, the amateurs outstripped the professionals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
David Austin Roses usually releases about two varieties every year — another is expected next month — after selecting two parental roses and hybridizing them by cross-pollinating around 40,000 seeds by hand.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
John Lonsdale, a breeder and grower in Exton, Pa., says he is still content “to let the bees do their work,” but he acknowledges the efficiency of hybridizing.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2021
George C. Thomas Jr. was a product of wealth, a man who could afford to spend his days breeding English setters, hybridizing roses and designing golf courses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2015
Using a different method, Jorge Mora-Urpi, one of Clement’s collaborators, concluded that Indians might have bred the modern peach palm by hybridizing palms from several areas, including the Peruvian Amazon.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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