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Etymology
From anagram + -ize.[1]
Verb
anagramize (third-person singular simple present anagramizes, present participle anagramizing, simple past and past participle anagramized)
- (American and Oxford British spelling) To make an anagram from or to transform into as an anagram.
- Synonym: anagrammatise
1981, Osmond Beckwith, Vernon: An Anecdotal Novel, page 7:...and the smell of Juicy Fruit chewing gum (Juicy Fruit almost anagramizes into Fruechy) — at any rate, one of these brothers, I couldn't tell them apart at the time, is standing behind the counter;
1990, Robert Hendrickson, British literary anecdotes, page 80:She only renounced such claims when a judge anagramized "Dame Eleanor Davies" into "Never so mad a ladie."
2000, Rain Taxi - Volumes 5-7, page 19:He might search and replace certain words, dissolve the text down to key phrases, anagramize each line, or string verbal fragments into a story.
2014, Paul Di Filippo, Harsh Oases: Stories:ou might notice Bruce's surname anagramized into that of the protagonist.
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