Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

repoliticize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-politi-cize
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To politicize again.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"I shall here sharpen my critique of the Hegelian Marxism of the Frankfurt school, arguing that theorists like Horkheimer and Adorno failed to repoliticize Marxism[…]"
"I examine some recent attempts to do this — to repoliticize famines — particularly those that introduced the notion of famine as a complex political emergency"
"Bedall shows how social movements, who attempt to repoliticize global climate governance, often end up playing the song of depoliticization."

Etymology

From re- + politicize.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: re

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

repoliticizes (present, singular) repoliticizing (participle, present) repoliticized (participle, past) repoliticized (past) repoliticise (alternative)

Questions

What does repoliticize mean?: To politicize again.
Where does repoliticize come from?: From re- + politicize.

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