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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

resubordinate en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + subordinate.

Meanings

  1. To subordinate again; to make once again subordinate.
    • Although representations of abject white masculinity in Jackass are potentially valid critiques of working-class subjugation, they may also resubordinate the historically marginalized through erasure. In other words, the victimized white male is depicted in a way that subsumes the variegated histories of racial, gender, and sexual ‘minorities’. 2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 16, page 60:

Forms

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resubordinated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
resubordinated Tense=Past lexicographic
resubordinates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
resubordinating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic