instrumentalize

English

Etymology

From instrumental +‎ -ize.

Verb

instrumentalize (third-person singular simple present instrumentalizes, present participle instrumentalizing, simple past and past participle instrumentalized)

1. (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 […]

2. (music, transitive) To transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice

Antonyms

• deinstrumentalize

Related terms

• instrumentalization

Translations

make into an instrument for achieving a goal

• Catalan: instrumentalitzar (ca)
• French: instrumentaliser (fr)
• Galician: instrumentalizar (gl)
• German: instrumentalisieren (de)
• Greek: εργαλειοποιώ (el) (ergaleiopoió)
• Italian: strumentalizzare (it)
• Portuguese: instrumentalizar (pt)
• Spanish: instrumentalizar (es)

transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice

• German: instrumentalisieren (de)
• Italian: strumentalizzare (it)

Galician

Verb

instrumentalize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of instrumentalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

instrumentalize

1. inflection of instrumentalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative