SECULARISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secularise mean? 

• SECULARISE (verb)
  The verb SECULARISE has 1 sense:

1. make secular and draw away from a religious orientation

  Familiarity information: SECULARISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECULARISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they secularise    ... he / she / it secularises   
Past simple: secularised   
Past participle: secularised   
-ing form: secularising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make secular and draw away from a religious orientation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

secularise; secularize

Context example:

Ataturk secularized Turkey

Hypernyms (to "secularise" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

secularisation (the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion)