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    GHETTOIZE

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     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they ghettoize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it ghettoizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: ghettoized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: ghettoized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: ghettoizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Put in a ghettoplay

    Example:

    The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized

    Synonyms:

    ghettoise; ghettoize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    Hypernyms (to "ghettoize" is one way to...):

    insulate; isolate (place or set apart)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s somebody

    Derivation:

    ghetto (formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live)

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