politicize
/pəˈlɪtɪsʌɪz
/(also politicise)
verb [with object] (often as adjective politicized)
1Cause (an activity or event) to become political in character: wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized...
- Universities are centres of freedom of speech, granted, but we have to admit that this is a hugely politicized event being proposed at the one campus in Canada where this issue has exploded into violence.
- If judges are horribly political, politicized opposition to nominees is called for.
- When people protest the way the Administration is let off the hook until the election, of course, the charge will be that they are attempting to politicize the process.
1.1Make (someone) politically aware: we successfully politicized a generation of women...
- The polarizing of the population has been a wondrous gift to debate, and we are more politicized and aware than ever before.
- I was never politicized before that, but I had to come to grips with this latent fascism, otherwise I couldn't have unfolded as an artist at all.
- Rather than embittering or psychopathologizing him, his rape had politicized him, giving him a terrifying lucid insight into the idiotic evil of the male sex drive.
1.2 [no object] Engage in or talk about politics: we talk and squabble and politicize about education as a vote-catching agency