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dehistoricizes

dehistoricizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 dehistoricizes

What is dehistoricizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dehistoricizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dehistoricize.

Words near dehistoricizes in the dictionary

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

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