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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hyperpolice en · VERB

Etymology

From hyper- + police.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To police to an extreme and oppressive degree.
    • The contemporary emotional economy of racialized slavery in the Atlantic world is prolonged through the carceral industries that hyperpolice Black emotions and terrorize Black lives. 2021, Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, She is Weeping, page 251:

Forms

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hyperpoliced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hyperpoliced Tense=Past lexicographic
hyperpolices Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hyperpolicing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic