Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to posterize
Participle: posterized
Gerund: posterizing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | posterize |
| you | posterize |
| he;she;it | posterizes |
| we | posterize |
| you | posterize |
| they | posterize |
Perfect
| I | have posterized |
| you | have posterized |
| he;she;it | has posterized |
| we | have posterized |
| you | have posterized |
| they | have posterized |
Past
| I | posterized |
| you | posterized |
| he;she;it | posterized |
| we | posterized |
| you | posterized |
| they | posterized |
Pluperfect
| I | had posterized |
| you | had posterized |
| he;she;it | had posterized |
| we | had posterized |
| you | had posterized |
| they | had posterized |
Future
| I | will posterize |
| you | will posterize |
| he;she;it | will posterize |
| we | will posterize |
| you | will posterize |
| they | will posterize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have posterized |
| you | will have posterized |
| he;she;it | will have posterized |
| we | will have posterized |
| you | will have posterized |
| they | will have posterized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | posterize |
| you | posterize |
| he;she;it | posterize |
| we | posterize |
| you | posterize |
| they | posterize |
Perfect
| I | have posterized |
| you | have posterized |
| he;she;it | have posterized |
| we | have posterized |
| you | have posterized |
| they | have posterized |
Imperfect
| I | posterized |
| you | posterized |
| he;she;it | posterized |
| we | posterized |
| you | posterized |
| they | posterized |
Pluperfect
| I | had posterized |
| you | had posterized |
| he;she;it | had posterized |
| we | had posterized |
| you | had posterized |
| they | had posterized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would posterize |
| you | would posterize |
| he;she;it | would posterize |
| we | would posterize |
| you | would posterize |
| they | would posterize |
Perfect
| I | would have posterized |
| you | would have posterized |
| he;she;it | would have posterized |
| we | would have posterized |
| you | would have posterized |
| they | would have posterized |
Imperative
| you | posterize |
| we | Let's posterize |
| you | posterize |
Verbs conjugated like 'posterize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'posterize'
posterise,
posturize,
esterize,
kosherize,
Listerize,
monsterize,
mysterize,
pasteurize,
posturise,
powderize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From poster + -ize (suffix forming verbs denoting something which is done or made). Sense 1.1 (“to reduce the number of colours”) refers to the original use of the process to produce posters. Sense 1.2 (“to score a slam dunk in basketball against (one or more opposing players) by leaping over them”) refers to the action being so spectacular as to warrant a photograph of it being printed on a poster.
Sample Sentences
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Probably, [Sam] Perkins just wanted to get out of the way and not be "posterized," which is what happens when the dunkee is humiliated by the dunker. But [Michael] Jordan thought Perkins, his college teammate, would try to block the dunk, so he switched the ball from his right to his left hand at chest level. […] Jordan extended his left hand, and flipped the ball off glass, with reverse spin, into the basket. […] Only one other such spectacular shot in a game of consequence comes to mind, the time in the 1980 NBA finals when Julius Erving wrapped himself around the basket, going out of bounds while in the air in the process, and posterized Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mark Landsberger with a reverse one-hand flip off the glass. [1991 June 7, Michael Wilbon, “Great shot! Jordan’s best amazingly goes one better”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2025, page D01:]