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reactionarize en · VERB

Etymology

From reactionary + -ize; compare radicalize, revolutionize.

Meanings

1. (rare) To make reactionary.
   • page 2: […] the participants for having organized the rally as a united gathering by overcoming various difficulties, and called upon them "to form a broad people's congress to stop the growing trends for reactionarizing the nation's politics." page 5: In so doing, they reactionarize politics to control and regulate people's life. The third important question is the struggle against the trends for rightish politics, or militarism. Japan's politics today is economically based on a policy to sacrifice ... 1979, Sohyo News:
   • The Nixon administration deliberately buys, reactionarizes [as received] and forces a section of the Vietnamese nation to commit genocidal crimes against their own nation; mechanizes its acts of genocide by ... 1972, Central Intelligence Agency, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, United States:
   • Because the Americans want to further "reactionarize" the Vientiane ruling machinery, the Vientiane puppet administration has suffered more and more serious internal squabbles, permanent divisions, and conflicts of power between […] 1972, Daily Report: Asia & Pacific:

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