respectabilize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make respectable; to give an appearance of respectability. transitive
    — There's not a notion in this book that has a more frightful, or ridiculous, mien than had the notion of human footprints in rocks, when that now respectabilized ruffian, or clown, was first heard from.

词形变化

respectabilizes present,singular,third-person respectabilizing participle,present respectabilized participle,past respectabilized past respectabilise alternative

词源

From respectable + -ize.
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