Third-person singular simple present indicative form of characterise.(verb)
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Use "characterises" in a sentence
"Down I went, with the flip flop sound that footwear of that name characterises echoing loudly off the high ceilings as I went."
"But a matured felicity of expression characterises Shakespeare's own contributions, narrating the romantic quest of Pericles for his daughter"
"Irenæus and Hippolytus have been rightly named Scripture theologians; but it is a strange infatuation to think that this designation characterises them as evangelical."