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peripheralizing

peripheralizing is the present participle and gerund of peripheralize.

Meaning of peripheralize

Verb

peripheralize (third-person singular simple present peripheralizes, present participle peripheralizing, simple past and past participle peripheralized)

  1. (transitive) To make peripheral; to marginalize.
    • The male bias that characterizes Western science has traditionally emphasized male activities while peripheralizing female activities.1996, Margot Blum Schevill, Janet Catherine Berlo, Edward Bridgman Dwyer, Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes, page 21

Questions about peripheralizing

What is peripheralizing the present participle and gerund of?
Peripheralizing is the present participle and gerund of peripheralize.

Words near peripheralizing in the dictionary

  1. peripheralization
  2. peripheralizations
  3. peripheralize
  4. peripheralized
  5. peripheralizes
  6. peripheralizing
  7. peripherally
  8. peripheralness
  9. peripherals
  10. peripherial
  11. peripheric

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