recognizes
SayREK-uhg-nyz-iz/ˈɹɛk.əɡ.naɪz.ɪz/
UK spellingrecognises
- 1Third-person singular simple present of recognize.
The court recognizes the new administration as the legitimate authority.
He instantly recognizes the melody his grandmother used to hum.
Note
The -s form carries every sense of the verb at once: a face matched to a memory, a government acknowledged as legitimate, a volunteer honored with an award. Its -ize spelling is the American one and also the Oxford style of British English. One older meaning, "to review or examine again," is obsolete, so it turns up only in older texts, never in a sentence a writer would build today.
recognizes is a form of recognize
recognize, verb: To identify someone or something as familiar from a previous encounter. Full entry
- Forms
- recognizerecognizes he/she/itrecognizing -ing formrecognized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- recognize → recognizes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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