de-palestinianise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "Jerusalem, the latest city subjected to this pattern of occupation, evoked a strong renewal of bitterness and feeling of doom, which is compared to past Israeli tactics of de-Palestinianising the land. In the memory of many respondents ..."
- "2006, Jonathan Cook, Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State, page xi The Israeli Arabs are the sole remnants of the expelled indigenous Palestinian people living on their land inside Israel, and as such the state has worked tirelessly over many decades since its establishment to "de-Palestinianise" them."
- "Daniel Levy, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said: one cannot de-Palestinianise what the Palestinian Authority does ..."
Etymology
From de- + Palestinianise.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de