instrumentalize
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Etymology edit
instrumental + -ize
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instrumentalize (third-person singular simple present instrumentalizes, present participle instrumentalizing, simple past and past participle instrumentalized)
- (transitive) To make into an instrument for achieving a goal.
- 2002, Katrin Sieg, Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany:
- […] they also instrumentalize race to reinstate nostalgic, vanguard notions of political activism […]
- (music, transitive) To transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice
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make into an instrument for achieving a goal
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transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice
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Galician edit
Verb edit
instrumentalize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of instrumentalizar:
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instrumentalize
- inflection of instrumentalizar: