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⚖️ To make biased 🪖 To recruit fighters
to partisanize

to partisanize

9.9
To recruit people to become armed fighters in a war
  • verb
  • /ˈpɑːrtɪzəˌnaɪz/
  • Specialized
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  • During the war, several groups attempted to partisanize local communities to join their cause.

Examples

  • The resistance leaders hoped to partisanize the villagers to strengthen their fight against the occupiers.

  • Efforts to partisanize the youth were met with both enthusiasm and fear in the occupied region.

  • The rebels aimed to partisanize the local population.

  • During the war, many groups tried to partisanize civilians.

  • The resistance leaders hoped to partisanize the villagers to strengthen their fight against the occupiers.

  • Efforts to partisanize the youth were met with both enthusiasm and fear in the occupied region.

  • During the war, several groups attempted to partisanize local communities to join their cause.

Antonyms

to disband
43 4.3

To stop being a group, for example a band or committee

to demobilize
  • Specialized
4 7.5

To release soldiers from military service and return them to civilian life

How Partisan

to radicalize
28 7.7
to partisanize
  • Specialized
9.9
to recruit
277 3.2
to convert
131 4.5
to persuade
472 2.7

Surface Forms

partisanize infinitive
partisanized past
partisanized past participle
partisanizing present participle
partisanizes third person singular

Morphology

partisanize = partisan (transparent) = partisan + ize

This sense is a direct extension of 'partisan' with '-ize' meaning 'to make into or recruit as', which is a regular derivation.

Etymology

Partisanize can also mean to turn people into fighters, and it comes from partisan, with part- meaning 'part' or 'group' and the ending -ize meaning 'to make'. So to partisanize a place is to recruit people to join local armed fighters.