tribalize
English
Alternative forms
- tribalise
Etymology
tribal + -ize
Verb
tribalize (third-person singular simple present tribalizes, present participle tribalizing, simple past and past participle tribalized)
- (transitive) To make tribal.
- 2009 September 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Baby-Sitting to Adoption”, in New York Times:
- 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.
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Antonyms
- detribalize
Related terms
- tribalization