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race lifting

race lifting is the present participle and gerund of race lift.

Meaning of race lift

Verb

race lift (third-person singular simple present race lifts, present participle race lifting, simple past and past participle race lifted)

  1. To change the race of a fictional character.
    • The movie industry has supposedly cleaned up this particularly shameful act, but it has been replaced by a subtler form of race-lifting: rather than hiring actors of the same ethnicity to play non-Caucasian characters, Hollywood often simply changes the ethnicity of the characters themselves....2011 November 14, Steve Rose, “G2: Bend it like Heathcliff: An Afro-Caribbean Heathcliff, a Caucasian anime hero and an all-black take on Tennessee Williams”, in The Guardian, page 6

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Questions about race lifting

What is race lifting the present participle and gerund of?
Race lifting is the present participle and gerund of race lift.

Words near race lifting in the dictionary

  1. race hazards
  2. race knife
  3. race knives
  4. race lift
  5. race lifted
  6. race lifting
  7. race lifts
  8. race meeting
  9. race meetings
  10. race memories
  11. race memory

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