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Past tense of politicize

regular verb

The past tense of politicize is politicized. The past participle is also politicized.

Forms of politicize

Base form (V1)politicize /pəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪz/
Past tense (V2)politicized
Past participle (V3)politicized
Present participlepoliticizing
Third person singularpoliticizes

Politicized in a sentence

  • How did the question of animal welfare become a mass movement, and how was it politicized?2023, Richard J. Miller, The Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation, page 183. From the entry companimal
  • Losing control of Congress, they say, could mean a highly politicized impeachment of their president.2018 January 27, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Nicholas Fandos, “As Gridlock Deepens in Congress, Only Gloom Is Bipartisan”, in The New York Times. From the entry congress
  • They politicized things that never should have been politicized.2025 August 6, 7:10 from the start, in Kudlow, spoken by John Carney, via FOX Business. From the entry bankfare
  • Arte Povera, the politicized avant-garde art movement that blossomed in Italy in the late ’60s, is having a moment.2017 January 30, M. H. Miller, “Arte Povera Is Back”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, →ISSN. From the entry Arte Povera
  • In what follows, I want to stress two other aporias in capitalist realism, which are not yet politicized to anything like the same degree.2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 3, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry aporia

Meaning of politicize

  1. verb To engage in or discuss politics.
  2. verb To give something political characteristics; to turn into a political issue.
  3. verb To make someone politically active or aware.

Full definition of politicize

Questions about the past tense of politicize

What is the past tense of politicize?
The past tense of politicize is politicized.
What is the past participle of politicize?
The past participle of politicize is politicized.
Is politicize a regular or irregular verb?
Politicize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: politicize (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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