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DETRIBALISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does detribalise mean?
• DETRIBALISE (verb)
The verb DETRIBALISE has 1 sense:
1. cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity
Familiarity information: DETRIBALISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they detribalise ... he / she / it detribalises
Past simple: detribalised
Past participle: detribalised
-ing form: detribalising
... he / she / it detribalises Past simple: detribalised
Past participle: detribalised
-ing form: detribalising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
detribalise; detribalize
Hypernyms (to "detribalise" is one way to...):
acculturate (assimilate culturally)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
detribalisation (the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living)
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