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GHETTOIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ghettoize mean?
• GHETTOIZE (verb)
The verb GHETTOIZE has 1 sense:
1. put in a ghetto
Familiarity information: GHETTOIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they ghettoize ... he / she / it ghettoizes
Past simple: ghettoized
Past participle: ghettoized
-ing form: ghettoizing
... he / she / it ghettoizes Past simple: ghettoized
Past participle: ghettoized
-ing form: ghettoizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put in a ghetto
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
ghettoise; ghettoize
Context example:
The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized
Hypernyms (to "ghettoize" is one way to...):
insulate; isolate (place or set apart)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
ghetto (formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live)
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