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SECULARISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secularise mean? 

SECULARISE (verb)
  The verb SECULARISE has 1 sense:

1. make secular and draw away from a religious orientationplay

  Familiarity information: SECULARISE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SECULARISE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they secularise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it secularises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: secularised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: secularised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: secularising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make secular and draw away from a religious orientation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

secularise; secularize

Context example:

Ataturk secularized Turkey

Hypernyms (to "secularise" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

secularisation (the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion)


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