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SECULARISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they secularise ... he / she / it secularises
Past simple: secularised
Past participle: secularised
-ing form: secularising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
Example:
Ataturk secularized Turkey
Synonyms:
secularise; secularize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "secularise" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
secularisation (the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion)
