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tribalizing

tribalizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about tribalizing

What is tribalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Tribalizing is the present participle and gerund of tribalize.

Words near tribalizing in the dictionary

  1. tribality
  2. tribalization
  3. tribalize
  4. tribalized
  5. tribalizes
  6. tribalizing
  7. tribally
  8. tribals
  9. triband
  10. tribar
  11. tribarium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tribalizing (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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