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hegemonize

hegemonize verb: to subject to hegemony.

Verb

hegemonize (third-person singular simple present hegemonizes, present participle hegemonizing, simple past and past participle hegemonized)

  1. (transitive) To subject to hegemony.
    • Europe hegemonizes the human experience of forty-five hundred years of political, economic, technological, cultural relations within the Asian-African-Mediterranean interregional system.1995, Enrique D. Dussel, The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of "The Other" and the Myth of Modernity

Forms of hegemonize

third-person singular presenthegemonizes
present participlehegemonizing
past participlehegemonized
pasthegemonized

Origin of hegemonize

From hegemony + -ize.

Words formed from hegemonize

Questions about hegemonize

What does hegemonize mean?
Hegemonize means to subject to hegemony.
What part of speech is hegemonize?
Hegemonize is a verb.
What is the past tense of hegemonize?
The past tense of hegemonize is hegemonized.

Words near hegemonize in the dictionary

  1. hegemonist
  2. hegemonistic
  3. hegemonists
  4. hegemonization
  5. hegemonizations
  6. hegemonize
  7. hegemonized
  8. hegemonizer
  9. hegemonizers
  10. hegemonizes
  11. hegemonizing

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