Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

deregionalize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dere-gion-al-ize
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To change something so that it is no longer regionally divided.

Transitive verb

verb

To remove the regional (local) characteristics of something.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Eugenics was the crucial vehicle for nationalizing and deregionalizing the stigmatypes of southern poor white trash. Previous chapters in this book aimed to track how particular words and phrases […] described, portrayed, and ultimately constructed poor white trash as a stigmatized and despised social group in the South […] However, there is little evidence before the end of Reconstruction that poor white trash was considered to be a problem social group that the nation as a whole needed to address for its safety and welfare."

Etymology

From de- + regionalize.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: de

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

deregionalizes (present, singular) deregionalizing (participle, present) deregionalized (participle, past) deregionalized (past)

Questions

What does deregionalize mean?: To change something so that it is no longer regionally divided.
Where does deregionalize come from?: From de- + regionalize.

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