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fragilize en · VERB

Etymology

From fragile + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make fragile.
   • Osteoporosis is a generalized skeletal disease classified as an osteopenic fragilizing osteopathy that predisposes individuals to a greater risk of fracture. 2022, Hans-Christoph Pape, Stephen L. Kates, Christian Hierholzer, Senior Trauma Patients: An Integrated Approach, page 34:
   • Republicans have been good at fragilizing large corporations through bailouts, and Democrats have been good at fragilizing the government. 2011, Council on Foreign Relations, The New Arab Revolt:
   • It is a pluralist world, in which many forms of belief and unbelief jostle, and hence fragilize each other. 2009, Charles Taylor, A Secular Age, page 531:

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