Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

undemocratize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-de-moc-ra-tize
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make not democratic, or less democratic

Example Sentences

"But there is still a very wide difference between the willing and persistent, and the accidental and unwilling, holding of slaves, in respect to the influence which slave-holding exerts to undemocratize the master."
"because of the various attempts to undemocratize the government."
"CEOs and American big business have blanketed United States public education officials with their influence and, as Emery and Ohanian prove, their fifteen-year drive to undemocratize public education has yielded a many-tentacled private-public monster."

Etymology

From un- + democratize.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

undemocratizes (present, singular) undemocratizing (participle, present) undemocratized (participle, past) undemocratized (past) undemocratise (alternative)

Derived Forms

undemocratization

Frequently Paired Words

democratize

Questions

What does undemocratize mean?: To make not democratic, or less democratic
Where does undemocratize come from?: From un- + democratize.

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