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Etymology

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de- +‎ citizen +‎ -ize

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Verb

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decitizenize (third-person singular simple present decitizenizes, present participle decitizenizing, simple past and past participle decitizenized)

  1. (transitive) To strip of citizenship.
    • 1863, Edward Bates, On Citizenship:
      We have no law — as the French have — to decitizenize a citizen.

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