niggerize

Verb

niggerize (third-person singular simple present niggerizes, present participle niggerizing, simple past and past participle niggerized)

1. (ethnic, offensive, slur, transitive) To subject to niggerization, (the act of dehumanizing black people, or other people in the manner of black people).
   • It's difficult to view only the addict as "sick" when a "normal" society is rotting: with racial conflict, with increasing poverty, with a school system niggerizing potentially creative minds, with obscene military spending and war aggression […]1971, Nicholas M. Regush, The Drug Addiction Business, page 126
   • If you need to niggerize, go and get yourself a passel of spades. We ain't niggers.1973, Bartholomew Gill, Mark McGarrity, Lucky Shuffles, page 61
2. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur, transitive) To subject or expose to black people or their influence.
   • Educated with Negroes, studying and living on a social equality with them; returning to his native State and seeking to niggerize the public schools; dismissed in disgrace;1909, Walter Hines Page, The Southerner, page 328
   • And if the Angle-Saxtons was to stand fur that, purty soon they would be sociable equality. And next the hull dern country would be niggerized1912, Don Marquis, Danny's Own Story, page 185
3. (ethnic, offensive, slur, transitive) To render someone or something to resemble the racist stereotype of a black person.
   • Instead their humor simply mocked situations without explaining them and the performers niggerized their material to please white audiences.1975 August, Ebony, volume 30, number 10, page 124
   • But if the white population continues to diminish, and become more niggerized, a more niggerized Christ will also come into being.1993, The Liberty Bell - Volume 21, page 60
4. (dated, offensive, transitive) To treat (wood) with paraffin or coke-oven coal tar in order to increase its acid resistance.
   • Niggerized wood is used almost interchangeably with paraffin-treated wood for acid tanks.1946, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Wood-Preservers' Association, page 261
   • The "Asidbar" treatment referred to in the subject report appears to be a refinement of the so-called "Niggerizing" treatment which was in some use during the early part of the recent war.1948, Proceedings of the National Annual Meeting - Forest Products Research Society, page 123