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territorialize

territorialize verb: to enlarge by extension of territory.

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 territorialize

third-person singular presentterritorializes
present participleterritorializing
past participleterritorialized
pastterritorialized
alternative formterritorialise

Origin of territorialize

From territorial + -ize.

Words formed from territorialize

Questions about territorialize

What does territorialize mean?
Territorialize means to enlarge by extension of territory.
What part of speech is territorialize?
Territorialize is a verb.
What is the past tense of territorialize?
The past tense of territorialize is territorialized.

Words near territorialize in the dictionary

  1. territorialities
  2. territoriality
  3. territorializable
  4. territorialization
  5. territorializations
  6. territorialize
  7. territorialized
  8. territorializes
  9. territorializing
  10. territorially
  11. territorials

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