MEANING
To develop an organized explanation or propose how something may work.
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Words that belong together
- theorize about
- theorize that
- theorize a relationship
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She theorized that repeated disruptions had changed the group’s habits.
The chapter theorizes about the relationship between memory and place.
They observed the pattern before theorizing about its cause.
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Word forms
- Base
- theorize
- Past tense
- theorized
- Past participle
- theorized
- Present participle
- theorizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- theorize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are theorizing
- Present perfect
- have/has theorized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been theorizing
- Past
- theorized
- Past continuous
- was/were theorizing
- Past perfect
- had theorized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been theorizing
- Future
- will theorize
- Future continuous
- will be theorizing
- Future perfect
- will have theorized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been theorizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Forms: theorize; theorizes; theorized; theorized; theorizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: theorizes.
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