Usually means: Cause division into contrasting groups.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. polarize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. polarize: Merriam-Webster
  3. polarize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. polarize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. polarize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. polarize: Vocabulary.com
  7. Polarize, polarize: Wordnik
  8. polarize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. polarize: Wiktionary
  10. polarize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. polarize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. polarize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. polarize: Dictionary.com
  14. polarize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. polarize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Polarize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Polarize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. polarize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. polarize: Rhymezone
  20. polarize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. polarize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. polarize: FreeDictionary.org
  23. polarize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. polarize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polarize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polarize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. polarize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. polarize: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polarize: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polarize: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polarize: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  2. POLARIZE: Power Engineering

(Note: See polarizability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive, US) To cause to have a polarization.
verb:  (transitive, US) To cause a group to be divided into extremes.

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