To give something political significance or association, or make it subject to political interests.
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Words that belong together
- politicize an issue
- politicize an institution
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The appointment politicized an office previously presented as independent.
The debate politicized the issue by connecting it to competing programs.
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Word forms
- Base
- politicize
- Past tense
- politicized
- Past participle
- politicized
- Present participle
- politicizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- politicize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are politicizing
- Present perfect
- have/has politicized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been politicizing
- Past
- politicized
- Past continuous
- was/were politicizing
- Past perfect
- had politicized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been politicizing
- Future
- will politicize
- Future continuous
- will be politicizing
- Future perfect
- will have politicized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been politicizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: politicize; politicizes; politicized; politicized; politicizing 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: politicizes.
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