Word.ws English Dictionary

deghettoizing

deghettoizing is the present participle and gerund of deghettoize.

Meaning of deghettoize

Verb

deghettoize (third-person singular simple present deghettoizes, present participle deghettoizing, simple past and past participle deghettoized)

  1. (transitive) To remove from a ghetto and integrate into the mainstream.
    • Wherever they turned there were agencies that moved to deghettoize them, secularize them, enlighten them.1989, Jacob Rader Marcus, United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Volumes 1-2

Questions about deghettoizing

What is deghettoizing the present participle and gerund of?
Deghettoizing is the present participle and gerund of deghettoize.

Words near deghettoizing in the dictionary

  1. deghans
  2. deghettoization
  3. deghettoize
  4. deghettoized
  5. deghettoizes
  6. deghettoizing
  7. deghost
  8. deghosted
  9. deghosting
  10. deghosts
  11. DeGidio

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deghettoizing (page history and authors); deghettoize (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “deghettoizing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/deghettoizing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.