hostilize

词形变化

hostilized hostilizes 三单 hostilizes hostilizing hostilizing 现在分词 hostilized 过去式 hostilized 过去分词

别名

hostilise

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.

    古体

    1794, Anna Seward, Letters of Anna Seward Letter 96, to Reverend T. S. Whalley. When England, Spain, Holland, and Russia united with the powers already hostilized against an impious nation, that had reduced robbery, murder, and profaneness to a cool and practical system, I thought there was the fairest prospect of their success .

    March 4, 1815, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis C. Grey, Esq. if they go on checking, irritating, injuring and hostilizing us, they will force on us the motto “Carthago delenda est”.

词源

From hostile + -ize.

来源：wiktionary