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What is the verb for character?

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characterize
  1. to depict someone or something a particular way (often negative)
  2. to determine the characteristics of
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Some historians characterize Du Bois's thinking as riddled with contradiction.”
      “I would probably characterize this music as industrial jazz-metal-hip-hop-fusion.”
      “How would you characterize the differences in what was approved, versus what you had proffered as a general concept to include as part of the speech?”
characterise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of characterize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “So I don't really have a lot of sympathy for those who want to use pejorative terms to characterise a negotiation process.”
      “How could we characterise the nature of conflicts that have emerged throughout the world?”
      “They despair of the moral decline and the ugly brutishness that characterise much of urban Britain.”
character
characterises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of characterise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Their recreation has none of the free-form jollity that characterises the folk tradition.”
      “He characterises descriptive metaphysics as formulating expressions of norms of representation.”
      “A predilection for forms over human figures characterises her work in installation art.”
characterizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of characterize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The situation characterizes the less productive affixes, such as noun-forming ity or th.”
      “Undoubtedly, this phenomenon is yet another indication of the glitziness, superficiality and shallowness, which characterizes modern society.”
      “He responds to mass media images and topical subjects without the irony that characterizes much postmodern mainstream art.”
characterised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of characterise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As for the Old Vic material, it's in jarring contrast to the steely professional polish that characterised Who's Next.”
      “They speak in an almost matter-of-fact way, recounting the catalogue of bad behaviour that has characterised the adolescent years for Alan.”
      “In observable characteristics, Saturn depicts someone who is characterised by austerity or seriousness.”
characterized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of characterize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Myeloma is characterized by an abnormal number of white blood cells called plasma cells.”
      “One study thermally characterized the reactive hyperemic response of healthy skin.”
      “The active site of CnCYP51 was well characterized by multiple-copy simultaneous-search calculations.”
charactered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of character
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characterizing
  1. present participle of characterize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The main sex chromosome systems characterizing sex determination in animals are represented in plants.”
      “A brand is simply a story or symbol, a way of describing or characterizing an idea, a product or service.”
      “The curvature of the central line is a one-dimension variable characterizing each infinitesimal cross-section.”
characterising
  1. present participle of characterise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He succeeded in characterising those differential equations the solutions of which have no essential singularity in the extended complex plane.”
      “One of the most critical stages of software development is characterising the bugs and then debugging the software.”
      “Whenever the general apathy characterising public servants gives way to zealousness, we smell something fishy.”
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