To remove or reduce political association, contest or influence.
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Words that belong together
- depoliticize a process
- depoliticize an issue
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The reform sought to depoliticize the selection process.
Calling the issue technical did not necessarily depoliticize its consequences.
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Word forms
- Base
- depoliticize
- Past tense
- depoliticized
- Past participle
- depoliticized
- Present participle
- depoliticizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- depoliticize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are depoliticizing
- Present perfect
- have/has depoliticized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been depoliticizing
- Past
- depoliticized
- Past continuous
- was/were depoliticizing
- Past perfect
- had depoliticized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been depoliticizing
- Future
- will depoliticize
- Future continuous
- will be depoliticizing
- Future perfect
- will have depoliticized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been depoliticizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: depoliticize; depoliticizes; depoliticized; depoliticized; depoliticizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: depoliticizes.
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