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tribalise

tribalise is the alternative form of tribalize.

Meaning of tribalize

Verb

tribalize (third-person singular simple present tribalizes, present participle tribalizing, simple past and past participle tribalized)

  1. (transitive) To make tribal.
    • And it may, indeed, be the only way to go, but we should have no illusions: We’re talking State Building 101 in the most inhospitable terrain and in one of the poorest, most tribalized, countries in the world.2009 September 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Baby-Sitting to Adoption”, in New York Times

Forms of tribalise

third-person singular presenttribalises
present participletribalising
past participletribalised
pasttribalised

Questions about tribalise

What is tribalise the alternative form of?
Tribalise is the alternative form of tribalize.

Words near tribalise in the dictionary

  1. tribal house
  2. tribal tattoo
  3. tribal tattoos
  4. tribalesque
  5. tribalisation
  6. tribalise
  7. tribalised
  8. tribalises
  9. tribalising
  10. tribalism
  11. tribalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tribalise (page history and authors); tribalize (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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