alphabetize

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alphabetize

verb alphabetizes · alphabetizing · alphabetized · alphabetise

  1. Canada, US, transitive To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet. It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.

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@misc{alphabetize_2026,
  title = {alphabetize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/alphabetize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}