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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of genericise.

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Examples

  • Derringer is a genericised misspelling of the last name of Henry Deringer, a maker of small pocket pistols in the 1800s.

    Derringers tellurian 2007

  • In that the tanks just visible seem to be genericised cruiser types, owing something to the Valentine tank, it's not any 'real' tank and not even very like any.

    Airminded 2010

  • However, we wanted a genericised set of closures and utility functions which we could not find.

    Dashboard RSS Feed 2008

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