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decontextualise

decontextualise is the alternative spelling of decontextualize.

Meaning of decontextualize

Verb

decontextualize (third-person singular simple present decontextualizes, present participle decontextualizing, simple past and past participle decontextualized)

  1. (transitive) To divest of context.
    • Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them[…]2008, Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, page 109
    Antonyms:
    contextualize

Forms of decontextualise

third-person singular presentdecontextualises
present participledecontextualising
past participledecontextualised
pastdecontextualised

Questions about decontextualise

What is decontextualise the alternative spelling of?
Decontextualise is the alternative spelling of decontextualize.

Words near decontextualise in the dictionary

  1. decontented
  2. decontenting
  3. decontents
  4. decontextualisation
  5. decontextualisations
  6. decontextualise
  7. decontextualised
  8. decontextualises
  9. decontextualising
  10. decontextualizable
  11. decontextualization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decontextualise (page history and authors); decontextualize (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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