TERRITORIALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does territorialize mean? 

• TERRITORIALIZE (verb)
  The verb TERRITORIALIZE has 3 senses:

1. organize as a territory

2. place on a territorial basis

3. extend by adding territory

  Familiarity information: TERRITORIALIZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERRITORIALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they territorialize    ... he / she / it territorializes   
Past simple: territorialized   
Past participle: territorialized   
-ing form: territorializing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organize as a territory

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

territorialise; territorialize

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

organise; organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

territorialization (the act of organizing as a territory)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place on a territorial basis

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

territorialise; territorialize

Context example:

The railways were territorialized

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

territorialization (the act of organizing as a territory)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Extend by adding territory

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

territorialise; territorialize

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

broaden; extend; widen (extend in scope or range or area)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something