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English
Etymology
From goblin + -ize.
Verb
goblinize (third-person singular simple present goblinizes, present participle goblinizing, simple past and past participle goblinized)
- (transitive) To transform (someone) into a goblin.
1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 118:Once goblinized, Herodias joins them, doomed still to bear about the Baptist's head;
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