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decontextualizes

decontextualizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about decontextualizes

What is decontextualizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Decontextualizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of decontextualize.

Words near decontextualizes in the dictionary

  1. decontextualizable
  2. decontextualization
  3. decontextualizations
  4. decontextualize
  5. decontextualized
  6. decontextualizes
  7. decontextualizing
  8. decontract
  9. decontracted
  10. decontracting
  11. decontraction

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