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decommunise

decommunise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling 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

Antonyms of decommunise

Forms of decommunise

third-person singular presentdecommunises
present participledecommunising
past participledecommunised
pastdecommunised

Origin of decommunise

From de- + communise.

Words formed from decommunise

Questions about decommunise

What is decommunise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Decommunise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of decommunize.

Words near decommunise in the dictionary

  1. decommoditize
  2. decommoditized
  3. decommoditizes
  4. decommoditizing
  5. decommunisation
  6. decommunise
  7. decommunised
  8. decommunises
  9. decommunising
  10. decommunization
  11. decommunize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decommunise (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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