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de-communize

de-communize is the alternative form of decommunize.

Meaning of decommunize

Verb

decommunize (third-person singular simple present decommunizes, present participle decommunizing, simple past and past participle decommunized)

  1. (transitive) To divest of communism.
    • The new vision of NATO, as outlined by Baker in his speech at Berlin on December 12, 1989, of reaching out for relationships with the decommunizing states of Eastern Europe, was to be met with resistance by the French president.2001, Charles Cogan, The Third Option: The Emancipation of European Defense, 1989-2000, page 27

Verb capitalized: de-Communize

de-Communize (third-person singular simple present de-Communizes, present participle de-Communizing, simple past and past participle de-Communized)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of decommunize.

Forms of de-communize

third-person singular presentde-communizes
present participlede-communizing
past participlede-communized
pastde-communized
third-person singular presentde-Communizes
present participlede-Communizing
past participlede-Communized
pastde-Communized

Questions about de-communize

What is de-communize the alternative form of?
De-communize is the alternative form of decommunize.
What part of speech is de-communize?
De-communize is a verb.
What is the past tense of de-communize?
The past tense of de-communize is de-communized.

Words near de-communize in the dictionary

  1. de-Christianized
  2. de-Christianizes
  3. de-Christianizing
  4. de-communisation
  5. de-communization
  6. de-communize
  7. de-communized
  8. de-communizes
  9. de-communizing
  10. de-crown
  11. de-crowned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: de-communize (page history and authors); de-Communize (page history and authors); decommunize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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