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DETRIBALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they detribalize ... he / she / it detribalizes
Past simple: detribalized
Past participle: detribalized
-ing form: detribalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity
Synonyms:
detribalise; detribalize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "detribalize" is one way to...):
acculturate (assimilate culturally)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
detribalization (the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living)
