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outsegregate en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + segregate.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To promote or follow a more segregationist policy than.
    • These families tried to isolate their children from racial discrimination as much as possible by outsegregating the White segregationists. 2005, F. Philip Rice, Kim Gale Dolgin, The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture, page 56:
    • […] not all Chicago Negroes were exactly pining away for integration. Certainly the Black Muslims, with their passion for a Negro apartheid, were championing a separatist movement that practically outsegregated the segregationists. 1968, Lionel Lokos, House Divided: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, page 216:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outsegregating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outsegregates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outsegregated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outsegregated Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

outseg