Meaning & use
veganize
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Meanings
verbtransitiveinformal
to change a recipe or dish so that it contains no animal products.
Grammar: Takes an object: veganize the cake.
Patterns
- veganize something
- veganize a recipe
- veganize a dish
She veganized her grandmother's banana bread recipe by using flax eggs.
The restaurant veganized its famous chocolate cake for the new menu.
Can you veganize this soup without losing the creamy texture?
verbtransitiveinformal
to make a place, product, or lifestyle entirely free of animal products.
Grammar: Takes an object; often used about a whole diet, kitchen, or business.
Patterns
- veganize something
- veganize a diet
- veganize a kitchen
They veganized their whole kitchen, replacing butter and eggs with plant-based alternatives.
The bakery has veganized all of its breads.
He is trying to veganize his diet one meal at a time.
Word forms
| third person singular | veganizes |
|---|---|
| past tense | veganized |
| past participle | veganized |
| -ing form | veganizing |
Common combinations
- veganize a recipe
- It took me three tries to veganize this recipe.
- veganize a dish
- The chef veganized the dish by swapping cream for coconut milk.
- veganize your diet
- She decided to veganize her diet after watching a documentary.
- fully veganized
- The menu is now fully veganized.
Synonyms and how they differ
- make vegan
- This is the plain, neutral phrase; 'veganize' is more informal and often used by people already familiar with vegan cooking.
Word family
- vegan noun
- a person who does not eat or use any animal products.
- vegan adjective
- containing no animal products.
- veganism noun
- the practice or belief of avoiding all animal products.
Commonly confused: veganize or vegetarianize?
veganize vs vegetarianize
'Vegetarianize' would mean to make something vegetarian (no meat, but possibly eggs or dairy); 'veganize' means removing all animal products.
Practice
The chef decided to ___ the dessert so that everyone at the party could eat it.
Choose one answer.
After 'to' we need the base form of the verb, 'veganize'. 'Vegan' is a noun or adjective, 'veganism' is a noun, and 'veganized' is the past tense, which does not fit after 'to' here.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “veganize”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.