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hyperpolice

hyperpolice verb: to police to an extreme and oppressive degree.

Verb

hyperpolice (third-person singular simple present hyperpolices, present participle hyperpolicing, simple past and past participle hyperpoliced)

  1. (transitive) To police to an extreme and oppressive degree.
    • The contemporary emotional economy of racialized slavery in the Atlantic world is prolonged through the carceral industries that hyperpolice Black emotions and terrorize Black lives.2021, Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, She is Weeping, page 251

Forms of hyperpolice

third-person singular presenthyperpolices
present participlehyperpolicing
past participlehyperpoliced
pasthyperpoliced

Origin of hyperpolice

From hyper- + police.

Questions about hyperpolice

What does hyperpolice mean?
Hyperpolice means to police to an extreme and oppressive degree.
What part of speech is hyperpolice?
Hyperpolice is a verb.
What is the past tense of hyperpolice?
The past tense of hyperpolice is hyperpoliced.

Words near hyperpolice in the dictionary

  1. hyperpolarized
  2. hyperpolarizer
  3. hyperpolarizers
  4. hyperpolarizes
  5. hyperpolarizing
  6. hyperpolice
  7. hyperpoliced
  8. hyperpolices
  9. hyperpolicing
  10. hyperpolitical
  11. hyperpolitics

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