propagandize

verb — 3 senses

propagandize

verb

Etymology From propaganda + -ize.

1

To use or spread propaganda.

2

To tell propaganda to someone in an attempt to influence one's views.

  • After we'd managed to make ourselves comfortable in this garret, my new friends began to propagandize me. All they knew about me was that I was a student […]1987, Barbara Alpern Engel, Clifford N. Rosenthal, Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar:
3

To use something or someone in propaganda purposes.

  • He propagandized this panacea with single-minded determination throughout the revolutionary period and even managed to establish a People's Bank for a short time before his arrest in 1849.1989, Judith E. Zimmerman, Mid-Passage:
Derived terms
counterpropagandize, propagandization, propagandizer

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