SECULARIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they secularize ... he / she / it secularizes

Past simple: secularized

Past participle: secularized

-ing form: secularizing

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 "secularize" 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:

secularization (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control

Synonyms:

desacralize; secularize

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

transfer (cause to change ownership)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something