Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reactionarize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-ac-tionar-ize
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make reactionary.

Example Sentences

"Because the Americans want to further "reactionarize" the Vientiane ruling machinery, the Vientiane puppet administration has suffered more and more serious internal squabbles, permanent divisions, and conflicts of power between […]"
"The Nixon administration deliberately buys, reactionarizes [as received] and forces a section of the Vietnamese nation to commit genocidal crimes against their own nation; mechanizes its acts of genocide by ..."
"page 2: […] the participants for having organized the rally as a united gathering by overcoming various difficulties, and called upon them "to form a broad people's congress to stop the growing trends for reactionarizing the nation's politics." page 5: In so doing, they reactionarize politics to control and regulate people's life. The third important question is the struggle against the trends for rightish politics, or militarism. Japan's politics today is economically based on a policy to sacrifice ..."

Etymology

From reactionary + -ize; compare radicalize, revolutionize.

Inflected Forms

reactionarizes (present, singular) reactionarizing (participle, present) reactionarized (participle, past) reactionarized (past)

Questions

What does reactionarize mean?: To make reactionary.
Where does reactionarize come from?: From reactionary + -ize; compare radicalize, revolutionize.

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