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self-segregating

self-segregating is the present participle of self-segregate.

Meaning of self-segregate

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

Questions about self-segregating

What is self-segregating the present participle of?
Self-segregating is the present participle of self-segregate.

Words near self-segregating in the dictionary

  1. self-segmenting
  2. self-segments
  3. self-segregate
  4. self-segregated
  5. self-segregates
  6. self-segregating
  7. self-select
  8. self-selected
  9. self-selecting
  10. self-selection
  11. self-selections

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-segregating (page history and authors); self-segregate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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