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DENAZIFY
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Irregular inflected form: denazified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they denazify ... he / she / it denazifies
Past simple: denazified
Past participle: denazified
-ing form: denazifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance
Example:
The highest judges were never denazified
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "denazify" is one way to...):
cleanse (purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
nazify (cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character)
Derivation:
denazification (social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism)
