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What is the verb for distinctive?

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distinguish
  1. To see someone or something as different from others.
  2. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
  3. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Mark scanned the room intently, attempting to distinguish the mood of the guests who had arrived.”
      “I still see the black outline of the hull, and still think I can distinguish the figure of a man stretched upon the tiller.”
      “Pinker suggests that our love of music developed from an evolutionary need to distinguish different sounds.”
distinguished
distinguishing
distinguishes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distinguish
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The main chemical feature that distinguishes fluoroquinolones from the early quinolones is the presence of a fluorine at position six.”
      “It is not so much his tactical acumen as his ability to inspire that distinguishes Graeme Souness as a coach.”
      “This concern gets to the heart of the matter for prison abolitionists, and it distinguishes our analysis from prison reform advocates.”
distinguisheth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of distinguish
distinguishest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of distinguish
distinguisht
  1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of distinguish
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