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tabloidize en · VERB

Etymology

From tabloid + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To convert or assimilate into tabloid journalism; to make tawdry and sensational.
    • Make the strategic mistake — toward the end of a pleasantly blunt chat conducted while traipsing around her farm and ogling its stellar inhabitants — of mentioning her tabloidized romance with Cian O’Connor, a garrulous Irish horseman who forfeited an Olympic gold medal in 2005 when his mount failed a drug test, and she instinctively puts on the verbal brakes. 2007 October 12, Robin Finn, “Jumping Toward Her Own Turn in the Spotlight”, in New York Times:

Forms

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tabloidizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tabloidized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tabloidized Tense=Past lexicographic
tabloidizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic