Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to decolonize
Participle: decolonized
Gerund: decolonizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | decolonize |
| you | decolonize |
| he;she;it | decolonizes |
| we | decolonize |
| you | decolonize |
| they | decolonize |
Perfect
| I | have decolonized |
| you | have decolonized |
| he;she;it | has decolonized |
| we | have decolonized |
| you | have decolonized |
| they | have decolonized |
Past
| I | decolonized |
| you | decolonized |
| he;she;it | decolonized |
| we | decolonized |
| you | decolonized |
| they | decolonized |
Pluperfect
| I | had decolonized |
| you | had decolonized |
| he;she;it | had decolonized |
| we | had decolonized |
| you | had decolonized |
| they | had decolonized |
Future
| I | will decolonize |
| you | will decolonize |
| he;she;it | will decolonize |
| we | will decolonize |
| you | will decolonize |
| they | will decolonize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have decolonized |
| you | will have decolonized |
| he;she;it | will have decolonized |
| we | will have decolonized |
| you | will have decolonized |
| they | will have decolonized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | decolonize |
| you | decolonize |
| he;she;it | decolonize |
| we | decolonize |
| you | decolonize |
| they | decolonize |
Perfect
| I | have decolonized |
| you | have decolonized |
| he;she;it | have decolonized |
| we | have decolonized |
| you | have decolonized |
| they | have decolonized |
Imperfect
| I | decolonized |
| you | decolonized |
| he;she;it | decolonized |
| we | decolonized |
| you | decolonized |
| they | decolonized |
Pluperfect
| I | had decolonized |
| you | had decolonized |
| he;she;it | had decolonized |
| we | had decolonized |
| you | had decolonized |
| they | had decolonized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would decolonize |
| you | would decolonize |
| he;she;it | would decolonize |
| we | would decolonize |
| you | would decolonize |
| they | would decolonize |
Perfect
| I | would have decolonized |
| you | would have decolonized |
| he;she;it | would have decolonized |
| we | would have decolonized |
| you | would have decolonized |
| they | would have decolonized |
Imperative
| you | decolonize |
| we | Let's decolonize |
| you | decolonize |
Verbs conjugated like 'decolonize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'decolonize'
decolonise,
decolorize,
recolonize,
colonize,
debosonize,
decolorise,
decolourize,
defelonize,
deozonize,
recolonise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *de
3. Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
4. Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
5. Proto-Italic *dē
6. Latin dē
7. Latin dē-der.
8. English de-
9. English colonize
10. English decolonize
11. From de- + colonize.
Sample Sentences
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A paternal government would attempt to decolonize American literature, by forbidding the re-publication of foreign works, and offering premiums to those of home production. [1860, James Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson: In Three Volumes, page 84:]
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Across Ukraine, officials are starting projects to, as they say, “decolonize” their cities. Streets and subway stops whose names evoke the history of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union are under scrutiny by a population eager to rid itself of traces of the nation that invaded in late February. [2022 June 7, Erika Solomon, “Goodbye, Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy: Ukrainians look to ‘decolonize’ their streets.”, in The New York Times:]
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The arrival of Trump in the White House gave a new urgency to the idea that museums needed to “decolonize” their collections, atone for their past elitism, and become overtly political institutions rather than mere warehouses of valuable objects. [2022 October 3, Helen Lewis, “The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:]