Apartheidize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To increase the apartheidistic nature of. rare, transitive

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From apartheid + -ize.

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