Definition of Decolonizing

1. Verb. (present participle of decolonize) ¹

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Definition of Decolonizing

1. decolonize [v] - See also: decolonize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolonizing

decollete
decolletes
decologies
decology
decolonisation
decolonisations
decolonise
decolonised
decolonises
decolonising
decolonization
decolonizations
decolonize
decolonized
decolonizes
decolonizing (current term)
decolor
decolorant
decolorants
decoloration
decolorations
decolored
decoloring
decolorisation
decolorisations
decolorise
decolorised
decoloriser
decolorises
decolorising

Literary usage of Decolonizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Illustrations of the Literary History of the 18th Century: Consisting of edited by J. B. Nichols (1817)
"... from Barbadoes to Hudson's Bay, sending with each parcel pressing letters to the several Governors against those decolonizing lesions of evil spirits; ..."

2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"An apparatus for decolonizing cane-juice by means of sulphurous acid vapor. As the cane is crushed, the juice from the rollers passes by a trough into a ..."

3. Latin America Today by Pablo González Casanova (1993)
"... in some cases, a high decolonizing element both in French territories - Guadaloupe, Martinique, and French Guayana - and in those with consolidating ..."

4. The Principles of Bacteriology: A Practical Manual for Students and Physicians by Alexander Crever Abbott (1921)
"... note the effect of different decolorizing agents; and ascertain whether the organisms are capable of resisting the decolonizing effects of dilute acids. ..."

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