tribalize en · VERB
Etymology
From tribal + -ize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To make tribal.
And it may, indeed, be the only way to go, but we should have no illusions: We’re talking State Building 101 in the most inhospitable terrain and in one of the poorest, most tribalized, countries in the world.
2009 September 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Baby-Sitting to Adoption”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tribalizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| tribalized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| tribalized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| tribalise | alternative | lexicographic | |
| tribalizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |