DETRIBALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does detribalize mean? 

• DETRIBALIZE (verb)
  The verb DETRIBALIZE has 1 sense:

1. cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETRIBALIZE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

detribalise; detribalize

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)