democratize

English

Alternative forms

• democratise

Etymology

From French démocratiser.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɒkɹətaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

democratize (third-person singular simple present democratizes, present participle democratizing, simple past and past participle democratized) (transitive)

1. (strictly) To make democratic.
2. (loosely) To broaden access to (something), especially for the sake of egalitarianism.

Derived terms

• democratizable
• democratization
• democratizer
• redemocratize
• undemocratize
• undemocratized

Translations

to make democratic

• Albanian: demokratizoj (sq)
• Arabic: مَقْرَطَ (maqraṭa), دَقْرَطَ (daqraṭa), دَمَقْرَطَ (damaqraṭa) (proscribed)
• Armenian: ռամկավարացնել (ṙamkavaracʻnel) (Western Armenian), ժողովրդավարացնել (hy) (žoġovrdavaracʻnel)
• Asturian: democratizar (ast)
• Azerbaijani: demokratikləşdirmək
• Belarusian: дэмакратызава́ць impf or pf (demakratyzavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: демократизи́рам impf or pf (demokratizíram)
• Catalan: democratitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民主化 (zh) (mínzhǔhuà)

• Czech: demokratizovat impf or pf
• Danish: demokratisere
• Dutch: democratiseren (nl)
• Estonian: demokratiseerima
• Finnish: kansanvaltaistaa (fi), demokratisoida (fi)
• French: démocratiser (fr)
• Galician: democratizar (gl)
• Georgian: გადემოკრატიულება (gademoḳraṭiuleba)
• German: demokratisieren (de)
• Greek: εκδημοκρατίζω (el) (ekdimokratízo)
• Hungarian: demokratizál (hu)
• Irish: daonlathaigh, déan daonlathach
• Italian: democratizzare (it)
• Japanese: 民主化する (ja) (みんしゅかする, minshuka suru)
• Korean: 민주화(民主化)하다 (minjuhwahada)
• Latvian: demokratizēt
• Lithuanian: demokratizuoti
• Macedonian: демократизи́ра impf or pf (demokratizíra)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ардчилах (mn) (ardčilax)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: demokratisere

• Occitan: democratizar
• Polish: demokratyzować (pl) impf, zdemokratyzować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: democratizar (pt)
• Romanian: a democratiza (ro)
• Russian: демократизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (demokratizírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: демократизи́рати impf or pf, демократизовати impf or pf

  Roman: demokratizírati (sh) impf or pf, demokratizovati impf or pf

• Slovak: demokratizovať impf or pf
• Slovene: demokratizirati impf or pf
• Spanish: democratizar (es)
• Swedish: demokratisera (sv)
• Turkish: demokratikleştirmek (tr)
• Turkmen: demokratiýalaşdyrmak
• Ukrainian: демократизува́ти impf or pf (demokratyzuváty)
• Uyghur: دېموكراتىيەلەشتۈرمەك (dëmokratiyeleshtürmek)
• Uzbek: demokratlashtirmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: dân chủ hoá (民主化)
• Yiddish: דעמאָקראַטיזירן (demokratizirn)

Anagrams

• octamerized

Galician

Verb

democratize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of democratizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

democratize

1. inflection of democratizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative