instrumentalize

instrumentalize

English

Etymology

instrumental +‎ -ize

Verb

instrumentalize (third-person singular simple present instrumentalizes, present participle instrumentalizing, simple past and past participle instrumentalized)

1. (transitive) To make into an instrument for achieving a goal.
   • 2002, Katrin Sieg, Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

     […] they also instrumentalize race to reinstate nostalgic, vanguard notions of political activism […]

2. (music, transitive) To transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice

Antonyms

• deinstrumentalize

Related terms

• instrumentalization

Translations

transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice

Italian: strumentalizzare (it)