deradicalize
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- deradicalise (UK)
Etymology edit
de- + radicalize
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
deradicalize (third-person singular simple present deradicalizes, present participle deradicalizing, simple past and past participle deradicalized)
- (transitive) To divest of radicalism; to normalize politically.
- 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 267:
- [H]is successors […] clamped down and deradicalized, with the French Revolution providing excuse enough to drop further reform.
Translations edit
normalize politically, divest of radicalism
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