anathemize

Other forms of anathemize

past tense

anathemized·

present participle

anathemizing·

third person

anathemizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anathemize

What does anathemize mean?

anathemize means "wish harm upon; invoke evil upon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anathemize?

anathemize has 4 syllables: a-na-the-mize. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for anathemize?

Close synonyms include curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anathemize a common word?

anathemize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.