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hyperpolicing

hyperpolicing is the present participle and gerund of hyperpolice.

Meaning of hyperpolice

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

Questions about hyperpolicing

What is hyperpolicing the present participle and gerund of?
Hyperpolicing is the present participle and gerund of hyperpolice.

Words near hyperpolicing in the dictionary

  1. hyperpolarizes
  2. hyperpolarizing
  3. hyperpolice
  4. hyperpoliced
  5. hyperpolices
  6. hyperpolicing
  7. hyperpolitical
  8. hyperpolitics
  9. hyperpolyandrous
  10. hyperpolyandry
  11. hyperpolyglot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyperpolicing (page history and authors); hyperpolice (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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