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dehistoricized

dehistoricized is the simple past and past participle of dehistoricize.

Meaning of dehistoricize

Verb

dehistoricize (third-person singular simple present dehistoricizes, present participle dehistoricizing, simple past and past participle dehistoricized)

  1. (transitive) To separate or remove from history; to deprive of historical context.
    • Because the stunts disassociate these effects from their usual context, Jackass mimics state violence only to dehistoricize and depoliticize it.2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment

Questions about dehistoricized

What is dehistoricized the simple past and past participle of?
Dehistoricized is the simple past and past participle of dehistoricize.

Words near dehistoricized in the dictionary

  1. dehiscently
  2. dehisces
  3. dehiscing
  4. dehistoricization
  5. dehistoricize
  6. dehistoricized
  7. dehistoricizes
  8. dehistoricizing
  9. Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
  10. dehkan
  11. dehkans

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