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territorialise

territorialise is the alternative form of territorialize.

Meaning of territorialize

Verb

territorialize (third-person singular simple present territorializes, present participle territorializing, simple past and past participle territorialized)

  1. (transitive) To enlarge by extension of territory.
  2. (transitive) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
    • The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Forms of territorialise

third-person singular presentterritorialises
present participleterritorialising
past participleterritorialised
pastterritorialised

Origin of territorialise

From territorial + -ise.

Questions about territorialise

What is territorialise the alternative form of?
Territorialise is the alternative form of territorialize.

Words near territorialise in the dictionary

  1. territorial seas
  2. territorial water
  3. territorial waters
  4. territorialisation
  5. territorialisations
  6. territorialise
  7. territorialised
  8. territorialises
  9. territorialising
  10. territorialism
  11. territorialisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: territorialise (page history and authors); territorialize (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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