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self-segregate

self-segregate verb: to separate oneself from others.

Verb

self-segregate (third-person singular simple present self-segregates, present participle self-segregating, simple past and past participle self-segregated)

  1. (intransitive) To separate oneself from others.
    • In her case, she began getting “redpilled” because she felt the black students at her high school “self-segregated” and had different “demeanors” than the white students.2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society, archived from the original on 25 May 2022, page 27

Forms of self-segregate

third-person singular presentself-segregates
present participleself-segregating
past participleself-segregated
pastself-segregated

Origin of self-segregate

From self- + segregate.

Questions about self-segregate

What does self-segregate mean?
Self-segregate means to separate oneself from others.
What part of speech is self-segregate?
Self-segregate is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-segregate?
The past tense of self-segregate is self-segregated.

Words near self-segregate in the dictionary

  1. self-segment
  2. self-segmentation
  3. self-segmented
  4. self-segmenting
  5. self-segments
  6. self-segregate
  7. self-segregated
  8. self-segregates
  9. self-segregating
  10. self-select
  11. self-selected

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