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propagandize

propagandize verb: to use or spread propaganda.

Verb

propagandize (third-person singular simple present propagandizes, present participle propagandizing, simple past and past participle propagandized)

  1. (intransitive) To use or spread propaganda.
  2. (transitive) To tell propaganda to someone in an attempt to influence one's views.
    • After we'd managed to make ourselves comfortable in this garret, my new friends began to propagandize me. All they knew about me was that I was a student […]1987, Barbara Alpern Engel, Clifford N. Rosenthal, Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar
  3. (transitive) To use something or someone in propaganda purposes.
    • He propagandized this panacea with single-minded determination throughout the revolutionary period and even managed to establish a People's Bank for a short time before his arrest in 1849.1989, Judith E. Zimmerman, Mid-Passage

Forms of propagandize

third-person singular presentpropagandizes
present participlepropagandizing
past participlepropagandized
pastpropagandized

Origin of propagandize

From propaganda + -ize.

Words formed from propagandize

Questions about propagandize

What does propagandize mean?
Propagandize means to use or spread propaganda.
What part of speech is propagandize?
Propagandize is a verb.
What is the past tense of propagandize?
The past tense of propagandize is propagandized.

Words near propagandize in the dictionary

  1. propagandistic
  2. propagandistically
  3. propagandists
  4. propagandization
  5. propagandizations
  6. propagandize
  7. propagandized
  8. propagandizer
  9. propagandizers
  10. propagandizes
  11. propagandizing

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