niggerize

English

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Etymology

nigger + -ize

Verb

niggerize (third-person singular simple present niggerizes, present participle niggerizing, simple past and past participle niggerized)

  1. (transitive, ethnic slur, offensive) To subject to niggerization.
    • 1971, Nicholas M. Regush, The Drug Addiction Business, page 126:
      It's difficult to view only the addict as "sick" when a "normal" society is rotting: with racial conflict, with increasing poverty, with a school system niggerizing potentially creative minds, with obscene military spending and war aggression []
  2. (intransitive, ethnic slur, offensive) To be subjected or exposed to black people or their influence.

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