apartheidize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

apartheid +‎ -ize

Verb[edit]

apartheidize (third-person singular simple present apartheidizes, present participle apartheidizing, simple past and past participle apartheidized)

  1. (transitive, very rare) To increase the apartheidistic nature of.
    • 1979, Krishna Iyer, Of Law and Life, page 50:
      They stained our language and education with a communal brush and apartheidized our laws, public services and politics with religion, pampered our superstitious backwardness and created a vested interest in divisive national life.
    • 1986, Paul Radley, Jack Rivers and me, page 19:
      Some South African, black, brindle or white (apartheidized or otherwise) after soaking the Seychelles with light.
    • 2010, Satya Singh, My Take: A Predication, page 27:
      To the Native American personality and society; And, dehumanization of apartheidized “Blacks” of 'Dark Continent'

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