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Meaning of "decivilise" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DECIVILISE

decivilise  [diːˈsɪvɪˌlaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DECIVILISE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Decivilise is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb decivilise in English.

WHAT DOES DECIVILISE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of decivilise in the English dictionary

The definition of decivilise in the dictionary is to cause to be uncivilized or to take the attribute of civilization away from.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DECIVILISE

PRESENT

Present
I decivilise
you decivilise
he/she/it decivilises
we decivilise
you decivilise
they decivilise
Present continuous
I am decivilising
you are decivilising
he/she/it is decivilising
we are decivilising
you are decivilising
they are decivilising
Present perfect
I have decivilised
you have decivilised
he/she/it has decivilised
we have decivilised
you have decivilised
they have decivilised
Present perfect continuous
I have been decivilising
you have been decivilising
he/she/it has been decivilising
we have been decivilising
you have been decivilising
they have been decivilising
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I decivilised
you decivilised
he/she/it decivilised
we decivilised
you decivilised
they decivilised
Past continuous
I was decivilising
you were decivilising
he/she/it was decivilising
we were decivilising
you were decivilising
they were decivilising
Past perfect
I had decivilised
you had decivilised
he/she/it had decivilised
we had decivilised
you had decivilised
they had decivilised
Past perfect continuous
I had been decivilising
you had been decivilising
he/she/it had been decivilising
we had been decivilising
you had been decivilising
they had been decivilising
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will decivilise
you will decivilise
he/she/it will decivilise
we will decivilise
you will decivilise
they will decivilise
Future continuous
I will be decivilising
you will be decivilising
he/she/it will be decivilising
we will be decivilising
you will be decivilising
they will be decivilising
Future perfect
I will have decivilised
you will have decivilised
he/she/it will have decivilised
we will have decivilised
you will have decivilised
they will have decivilised
Future perfect continuous
I will have been decivilising
you will have been decivilising
he/she/it will have been decivilising
we will have been decivilising
you will have been decivilising
they will have been decivilising
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would decivilise
you would decivilise
he/she/it would decivilise
we would decivilise
you would decivilise
they would decivilise
Conditional continuous
I would be decivilising
you would be decivilising
he/she/it would be decivilising
we would be decivilising
you would be decivilising
they would be decivilising
Conditional perfect
I would have decivilise
you would have decivilise
he/she/it would have decivilise
we would have decivilise
you would have decivilise
they would have decivilise
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been decivilising
you would have been decivilising
he/she/it would have been decivilising
we would have been decivilising
you would have been decivilising
they would have been decivilising
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you decivilise
we let´s decivilise
you decivilise
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to decivilise
Past participle
decivilised
Present Participle
decivilising
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DECIVILISE


civilize
ˈsɪvɪˌlaɪz
decivilize
diːˈsɪvɪˌlaɪz
demobilize
diːˈməʊbɪˌlaɪz
destabilize
diːˈsteɪbɪˌlaɪz
evangelise
ɪˈvændʒɪˌlaɪz
evangelize
ɪˈvændʒɪˌlaɪz
fertilize
ˈfɜːtɪˌlaɪz
fossilize
ˈfɒsɪˌlaɪz
immobilize
ɪˈməʊbɪˌlaɪz
insolubilize
ɪnˈsɒljʊbɪˌlaɪz
mobilize
ˈməʊbɪˌlaɪz
remobilise
riːˈməʊbɪˌlaɪz
reutilize
ˌriːˈjuːtɪˌlaɪz
solubilize
ˈsɒljʊbɪˌlaɪz
stabilize
ˈsteɪbɪˌlaɪz
sterilise
ˈsterɪˌlaɪz
sterilize
ˈstɛrɪˌlaɪz
tranquillize
ˈtræŋkwɪˌlaɪz
utilize
ˈjuːtɪˌlaɪz
volatilize
vɒˈlætɪˌlaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DECIVILISE

decipherable
decipherer
decipherment
decision
decision support system
decision table
decision theory
decision time
decision tree
decision-maker
decision-making
decisional
decisive
decisively
decisiveness
decisory
decistere
decitizenise
decitizenize
decivilize

WORDS THAT END LIKE DECIVILISE

civilise
destabilise
fossilise
gentilise
infantilise
insolubilise
lyophilise
mobilise
Molise
overfertilise
overutilise
realise
respectabilise
restabilise
solubilise
subtilise
tranquilise
underutilise
valise
volatilise

Synonyms and antonyms of decivilise in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «decivilise» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DECIVILISE

Find out the translation of decivilise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of decivilise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «decivilise» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

decivilise
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

decivilise
570 millions of speakers

English

decivilise
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

decivilise
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

decivilise
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

decivilise
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

decivilise
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

decivilise
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

decivilise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Decivilise
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

decivilise
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

decivilise
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

decivilise
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Decivilise
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

decivilise
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

decivilise
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विलक्षणपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

decivilise
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

decivilise
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

decivilise
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

decivilise
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

decivilise
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

decivilise
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

decivilise
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

decivilise
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

decivilise
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of decivilise

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DECIVILISE»

The term «decivilise» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.322 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DECIVILISE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «decivilise» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «decivilise» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about decivilise

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECIVILISE»

Discover the use of decivilise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to decivilise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Imagology: The Cultural Construction and Literary ...
Famously, the decivilise figures in the context of the Vietnam war, in Coppola's Apocalypse now — a -^ cinematic reworking of Heart of darkness. Although the decivilise character is usually a man, Western women could also be represented as ...
Manfred Beller, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, 2007
2
Western European and British Barbarity, Savagery, and ...
... primitive, heathens, pagans, and barbaric without looking introspectively at Europeans and British. In order to characterise Africans as evolutionary and biologically inferior, they had to decivilise and dehumanise Africans. What is fascinating ...
Dr. Robinson A. Milwood, Phd, 2013
3
The Sociology of Colonies [Part 2]: An Introduction to the ...
It is mainly men too, as accident or opportunity has dictated, sailors, soldiers, traders, colonists, who have let themselves be initiated, and have been tempted to renounce their past and to “ decivilise ” themselves, bidding a complete farewell to ...
Rene Maunier, 2013
4
Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology ...
... general "demoralization" — were "faults" contracted from native culture, which now marked them as decivilise (Maunier 1932: 1 74; Jaurequiberry 1924: 25).30 Colonial medicine reflected and affirmed this slippage between physical, moral, ...
Micaela Di Leonardo, 1991
5
Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture
... identity and would become degenerate and decivilise. Internal to this logic was a notion of cultural, physical and moral contamination, the fear that those Europeans who did not subscribe to Dutch middle-class conventions of respectability ...
A. Brah, Annie E. Coombes, 2000
6
Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
... removed from the more general concern that European men living with native women would themselves lose their Dutch or French identity and would become degenerate and decivilise. Internal to this logic was a notion of cultural, physical,  ...
Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler, 1997
7
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Decistère,desistār, n. a cubic measure equal to 1∕10 stere. Decitizenise, dēsit′ izenīz,v.t.to deprive of citizenship. Decivilise, dēsiv′ilīz, v.t. toreduce from acivilised toa more savagestate. Deck, dek,v.t.tocover:toclothe:toadorn: tofurnish with a ...
Various
8
CITIES, POLITICS & POWER
... of exception, whichmust 'decivilise' the enemy– andasimportantly the state's ownnormsandstandards ofconduct – inorder toprotect through violence and inhumanity, thepeacefuland humane valuesonwhich its legitimacy and credibility rests.
Simon Parker, 2010
9
Deleuze and the Postcolonial
These physical artefacts and practices in a human settlement decivilise the community by adopting a paramilitary character that deepens its physico-cultural distance from the immediate environment. This visible architecture of the Jewish  ...
Simone Bignall, Paul Patton, 2010
10
Critical Psychology
Racist language may 'infantilise', 'primitivise', ' decivilise' and 'essentialise' the black man by making him 'the eternal victim of an essence for which he is not responsible' (Fanon, 1952, 35) (see here Derek Hook's chapter in this work: Frantz ...
Derek Hook, 2004

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECIVILISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term decivilise is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Hash made Dame Sally hallucinate - and she still can't see straight
They also decivilise those societies that allow them to spread, as we see every day. If people like Dame Sally won't stand up for civilisation, ... «Daily Mail, Aug 13»
2
Why Britain must keep a clear head in the debate on drugs
He said: 'drugs decivilise you, you stop being a civilised person,'” she said. “And I understood why so many people were against even the soft ... «The Independent, Aug 13»

REFERENCE
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