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wokify

wokify verb: to make (something or someone) woke (politically correct; holding progressive views or attitudes).

Verb

wokify (third-person singular simple present wokifies, present participle wokifying, simple past and past participle wokified)

  1. (derogatory, often, slang, transitive) To make (something or someone) woke (politically correct; holding progressive views or attitudes).
    • They’ll also note that the main thing separating those regimes from today’s Wokified institutions is the element of government coercion. Yes, there can be immense pressure to conform in places like Yale Law School, where no microaggression is too small not to invite the wrath of censorious...2021 November 9, Bret Stephens, “Why Wokeness Will Fail”, in The New York Times
    • So much for pandemic frustration. Or tax fatigue. Or government backlash. Or all the controversies du jour about masks or wokified curricula or anything else that’s been in the news. Seattle voters set all that aside, en masse.2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times
    Synonyms:
    woken
    Antonyms:
    dewokify

Synonyms of wokify

Antonyms

Forms of wokify

third-person singular presentwokifies
present participlewokifying
past participlewokified
pastwokified

Origin of wokify

From woke + -ify.

Questions about wokify

What does wokify mean?
Wokify means to make (something or someone) woke (politically correct; holding progressive views or attitudes).
What part of speech is wokify?
Wokify is a verb.
What is the past tense of wokify?
The past tense of wokify is wokified.

Words near wokify in the dictionary

  1. wokie
  2. wokies
  3. wokification
  4. wokified
  5. wokifies
  6. wokify
  7. wokifying
  8. woking
  9. Wokingham
  10. Wokingham Without
  11. Wokipedia

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