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de- +‎ radicalize

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  • IPA(key): /diːˈɹædɪkəlaɪz/

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deradicalize (third-person singular simple present deradicalizes, present participle deradicalizing, simple past and past participle deradicalized)

  1. (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.

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