1. Make someone or something less central, influential, or able to participate.
2. Obtain a distribution for selected variables by summing or integrating over others.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- marginalize a group
- marginalize a viewpoint
On the page
The consultation process marginalized residents without internet access.
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Word forms
- Base
- marginalize
- Past tense
- marginalized
- Past participle
- marginalized
- Present participle
- marginalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- marginalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are marginalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has marginalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been marginalizing
- Past
- marginalized
- Past continuous
- was/were marginalizing
- Past perfect
- had marginalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been marginalizing
- Future
- will marginalize
- Future continuous
- will be marginalizing
- Future perfect
- will have marginalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been marginalizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: marginalize; marginalizes; marginalized; marginalized; marginalizing 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: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: marginalizes.
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