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deracialise

deracialise is the alternative spelling of deracialize.

Meaning of deracialize

Verb

deracialize (third-person singular simple present deracializes, present participle deracializing, simple past and past participle deracialized)

  1. To treat in nonracial terms; to remove the racialization of.
    • Clearly it would be absurd to suggest its elimination in those societies in which rights are apportioned directly or indirectly on a racial basis. One could not deracialize South African society, for example, without it ceasing to be South African […]1986, John Rex, Race and Ethnicity, →ISBN

Forms of deracialise

third-person singular presentderacialises
present participlederacialising
past participlederacialised
pastderacialised

Origin of deracialise

From de- + racialise.

Questions about deracialise

What is deracialise the alternative spelling of?
Deracialise is the alternative spelling of deracialize.

Words near deracialise in the dictionary

  1. deracemizations
  2. deracemize
  3. deracemized
  4. deracemizes
  5. deracemizing
  6. deracialise
  7. deracialised
  8. deracialises
  9. deracialising
  10. deracialization
  11. deracializations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deracialise (page history and authors); deracialize (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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