Concept cluster: Change > Removal or reduction
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The act or process of abjectifying someone or something.
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The process of making or becoming abnormal.
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The act, or process of accustomizing to a new, or changed environment
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(transitive) To remove the dimension from (a quantity); to make dimensionless.
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The process of alienizing something.
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(transitive) To render (something or someone) alien
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The act or process of amortizing.
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The act of anarchizing.
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The act of anathematizing; vigorous denunciation.
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The act or process of making anonymous, of hiding or disguising identity.
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Act or process of artifactualizing.
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The process of awfulizing.
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The act or process of catastrophizing.
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The process by which something is cheapened or made vulgar.
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The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
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Alternative form of compromisation [The act or result of compromising.]
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The process where a major change that would be considered objectionable if it happened in a single step is gradually reached by a series of less noticeable smaller changes.
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To form a dauer
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Alternative form of deattribution [Discontinuance of attributing a work of art or literature, etc. to a particular creator, especially in a case where a work is reassigned from a prominent creator to a lesser or unknown creator.]
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Alternative form of debureaucratization [The act or instance of being debureaucratized.]
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The process, or the result of de-energizing
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The act or process of ceasing to be ethnic; de-ethnization.
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The act or process of ceasing to be, or of causing (a group) to cease to be, an ethnicity or a distinct people.
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a type of reeducation
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The reverse of internationalization
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The process of de-Maoizing.
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Alternative form of denazification [The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II.]
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The act of de-Sunnifying; the process of decreasing the Sunni character; deconversion from Sunnism
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Removing the Trump brand name.
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The process of deaggregating.
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The process of moving a societal structure away from an agrarian mode toward something else.
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The removal of anonymization.
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The process of debarbarizing.
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(UK) The replacement of bendy buses with non-articulated buses.
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The process of decanonizing.
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The process of decapitalizing something.
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The act or process of decarbonizing.
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The abolition or breaking-up of cartels
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The process of decasualizing.
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The act or process of decategorizing.
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The process of decatholicizing.
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The process, or the result of decationizing
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The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.
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The process of decephalizing.
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The act or process of decertifying.
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That causes, or undergoes deciliation
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The process of decircularizing.
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The process of decivilization.
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The process of declassifying.
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The removal of clerical influence
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The process of decolonializing.
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The process of decolumnizing.
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The act or process of decommercializing.
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The process of decommoditizing.
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The act, process, or result of decommunizing.
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The process of decomplexifying.
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The process of deconfiguring.
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The act or process of deconstitutionalizing.
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The process or result of decontextualizing.
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The process of decreolizing.
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The act of ceasing to treat a person as a criminal, by making their activities legal or no longer subjecting them to the criminal justice system (but instead possibly the mental healthcare system, etc).
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The process of deculturalizing.
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deculturization
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The act or process of deculturizing.
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The process of decumulating; in chemistry, any exothermic molecular change that converts a cumulated diene to a conjugated diene.
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The process of dedogmatizing.
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Process of defascistizing something; the undoing of something’s fascist character.
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The process of defederalizing.
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The process of defeminizing.
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The act or process of making something less flexible.
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The process or the result of being degazetted.
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The process of degazetting.
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(countable) A particular instance of such change.
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The process of degenitalizing.
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The act or process of deghettoizing.
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The process of deglamorizing.
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The process of diminishing interdependence and integration between the economies of nations
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The process of deglorifying; making something less glorious.
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(slang, humorous, rare) The process of degunkifying.
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The process of dehegemonizing.
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The process or result of dehistoricizing.
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The process of deimperializing; the dismantling or formal ending of an empire.
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The act or process of deindividualizing.
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the process of abolishing a practice that has been considered a norm
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The process of deinstrumentalizing.
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The process of deintellectualizing.
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The removal of obscure technical language.
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The process of dejudicializing.
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The removal of Latin elements from something.
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The process of delegalizing.
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The act or process of delegitimizing.
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Making something not lethal, or less lethal; delethalizing.
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The process of something being deleveraged.
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The process of delexicalizing, of making delexical.
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the process of delocalizing or the fact of being delocalized
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The act or process of demarginalizing.
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The subtraction of somebody’s masculinity; the process of demasculating somebody.
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(biology) The suppression of a male-orientated function by repressing male hormones
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demasculinization
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the act or process of dematerializing
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The act or process of dematerializing, or becoming immaterial.
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The process of demechanizing.
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Alternative form of demedicalization [The act or process of demedicalizing.]
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The act or process of demedicalizing.
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The act or process of dementalizing.
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The process of demesmerizing; release from hypnosis.
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(transitive) To remove metaphors from.
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Reversion from modernization to a pre-modern state; removal of modern elements or amenities from.
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The process of demographizing.
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Process of demonetarizing.
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The act of demonizing.
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(phonology) The process of becoming or making something nonmoraic; the process of losing or causing to lose a mora.
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The gradual reduction in the dose of morphine to a person who is addicted to it
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Synonym of demucify
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The process or the result of demucilating.
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The act or process of demutualizing.
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The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
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Act or process of denarrativizing.
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The process or result of denasalizing.
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The act or process of denationalizing, of removing from government control.
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The act or process of denaturalising, of changing or destroying the quality (nature) of a thing.
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The act or process of denaturalizing, of changing or destroying the quality (nature) of a thing.
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The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II.
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(transitive, Britain, historical) To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
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The act of making a denizen; naturalization.
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The act or process of denormalizing.
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The process of denotifying.
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The act or process of denuclearizing.
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(neologism, rare) The policy of combating the relocation of capital or business interests to offshore accounts, in foreign countries that are known to be tax havens.
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A process or act of democratization by removing oligarchs or lessening their political power.
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The development of a drug so that it is no longer an orphan drug.
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The act or process of depalatalizing.
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The process of depalletizing.
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The act or process of depanelizing.
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(medicine) The process of coming to regard a formerly medical condition as a health or behaviour condition.
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The process of depatriarchalizing.
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The process of phasing out the peasant class and its traditional practices.
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The act, process, or result of dephysicalizing.
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(linguistics) The process of depidginizing.
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The act or process of depoliticizing.
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The act or process of deprioritizing.
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The act or process of deprivatizing.
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The process of deproblematizing.
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The act or process of deprofessionalizing.
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The process of ceasing to be provincial or parochial
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The act or process of deradicalizing.
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The reduction or removal of randomness.
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The process of derationalizing.
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Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of derealization. [(psychology) The psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal, and the patient has a sense of detachment from it.]
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(The process of) making unreal, in general; detachment from reality or realness.
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The process of deregularizing.
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A process of dereifying.
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The process of dereligionizing.
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The process, or the result of deresinating
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The act or process, or an instance, of deresponsibilizing.
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The process of deritualizing.
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Alternative form of deruralization [The abandonment of the countryside by its population.]
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The abandonment of the countryside by its population.
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The process or action of derussifying something.
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(religion) The reverse of sacralization, and occurs when a formerly dedicated religious structure such as a church or religious school is given over for another purpose outside of the particular religious organization which dedicated it for a sacred purpose.
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The process of desecularizing.
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The loss or removal of all or part of the original semantic content (meaning) of a word or morpheme, sometimes (but not always) as part of grammaticalization.
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Synonym of desemanticization
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The act or process of desensitising, of dulling or reducing sensation.
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The act or process of desensitizing, of dulling or reducing sensation.
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The act or process of deserializing.
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The act or process of desexualizing.
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The process of desiloing.
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The removal or elimination of Chinese influence.
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The act of desocializing.
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The process of desovietizing.
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The process of despatializing.
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The process of despiritualizing.
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The act or process of destabilizing.
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The process of destandardizing.
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The decline in the role of the state to influence or control multinational corporations etc. within their jurisdiction; deterritorialization.
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The process or act of destigmatizing.
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The act or process of destimulating.
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The process of desubjectifying.
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The act of desynonymizing.
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desynonymization
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The process of detackifying.
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The act or process of determinizing.
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The act or process of detheocratizing.
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Process of detokenizing.
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A process of detotalizing.
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The act, process or result of detraditionalizing.
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The process, or the result of detrendizing
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Process of detribalizing.
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The act or process of deunionizing.
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The process of deurbanizing.
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making something less of a utopia, or not a utopia; making something more real, and less ideal
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The process of devalorizing.
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The reversal of a previous vernalization.
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The process of deviantizing.
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The reversal of the process of villagization.
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The process of devirilizing.
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The process of devirtualizing.
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The act of devitalizing
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Act or process of devocalizing.
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To process of devulgarizing something.
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The process of deweaponizing.
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The process or action of dewesternizing something.
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Alternative form of dewomanization [(uncommon) The act or process of dewomanizing.]
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(uncommon) The act or process of dewomanizing.
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The process of dezombifying somebody or something.
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The act or process of diminutizing.
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The process of disedifying.
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Alternative form of disinthrallment [A releasing from thralldom or slavery.]
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The process of becoming unequal; the act of disequalizing.
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Process of reaching a dishabituated state.
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The process of depriving of individuality.
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The process of disnaturalizing.
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The process of dispersonalizing.
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The process of dispersonifying.
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The process of making something dull or uninteresting.
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(colloquial) The process of dumbifying.
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Alternative form of detournement [(sociology) The reuse of elements of mainstream media to produce a subversive message.]
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(nursing) The conversion of a traditional institutional nursing home into a community where patients can live a full and active life.
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Alternative form of impanelment [The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.]
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(obsolete, transitive) To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.
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The process of making something ephemeral.
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The act or process of etherealizing.
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To convert into ether.
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The process of making something extreme.
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The act or process of making fragile.
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The action of the verb to Hooverise.
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The act or process of illegalizing.
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The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
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The process of making something impersonal.
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The act or process of invisiblizing.
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An act or instance of laetificating.
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The act or process of leveling.
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The process or result of minoritizing.
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Process of monetarizing.
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The act of neutralizing.
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The process of objectifying something.
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objectification
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The process or practice of ostracizing.
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Alternative form of overpersonalization [The act of overpersonalizing.]
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The process of pacifying.
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The act of peripheralizing; marginalization.
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(marketing) The move towards more expensive premium products.
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The process of problematizing, or something problematized.
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The process of realienating.
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The process of recreolizing.
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The act or process of relativizing.
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Alternative form of relegalization [Act or process of relegalizing.]
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The process of relegitimating.
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The process of relegitimizing.
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Alternative form of renaturalization [The act of naturalizing again.]
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Act or process of reobjectifying.
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The process of repaganizing.
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The process of repathologizing.
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The process of reproblematizing.
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The act or process of reradicalizing.
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The process of rerationalizing.
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The process of resolemnizing.
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The process of respatializing.
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Alternative form of restabilization [The process of restabilizing.]
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The process or result of retheorizing.
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Process of retribalizing.
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Alternative spelling of routinize [To make routine, to make common by repetition.]
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The process of rusticizing.
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The process of scandalizing.
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The deconsecration of a church.
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(uncountable) A monetary policy operation used to offset a foreign exchange intervention.
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The process of stultifying.
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The process, or the result of subcharacterizing
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The process of making subhuman.
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To modify in order to prepare for warmer weather
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The act of trivializing.
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The process of undeifying.
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the act or process of undemocratizing
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The result or process of undercontextualizing.
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(transitive) To strip of humanity; to dehumanize.
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The act of making something unilateral.
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The act or process of unisexualizing.
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Demodernization.
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the process of making something unprofessional
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(transitive, intransitive) To cause or undergo uralitization.
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Alternative form of urban-renewed [Having gone through the process of urban renewal.]
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The process of making something utilitarian.
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(transitive, informal) To put into a persistent vegetative state.
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The process of making somebody into a villain.

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