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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To make fragile. transitive

   "It is a pluralist world, in which many forms of belief and unbelief jostle, and hence fragilize each other."

Example

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"It is a pluralist world, in which many forms of belief and unbelief jostle, and hence fragilize each other."

Etymology

From fragile + -ize.

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