tribalize
verbEtymology From tribal + -ize.
1
To make tribal.
- And it may, indeed, be the only way to go, but we should have no illusions: We’re talking State Building 101 in the most inhospitable terrain and in one of the poorest, most tribalized, countries in the world.2009 September 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Baby-Sitting to Adoption”, in New York Times:
- Antonyms
- detribalize
- Derived terms
- retribalize, untribalized
- Related terms
- tribalization, untribalized