Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

territorialize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ter-ri-to-ri-al-ize
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To enlarge by extension of territory.

Transitive verb

verb

To reduce to the condition of a territory.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous."

Etymology

From territorial + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: territorial

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

territorializes (present, singular) territorializing (participle, present) territorialized (participle, past) territorialized (past) territorialise (alternative)

Derived Forms

deterritorialize reterritorialize territorializable

Synonyms

territorialise

Questions

What does territorialize mean?: To enlarge by extension of territory.
Where does territorialize come from?: From territorial + -ize.

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