fragilize
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[edit]fragilize (third-person singular simple present fragilizes, present participle fragilizing, simple past and past participle fragilized)
- (transitive) To make fragile.
- 2009, Charles Taylor, A Secular Age, page 531:
- It is a pluralist world, in which many forms of belief and unbelief jostle, and hence fragilize each other.
- 2011, Council on Foreign Relations, The New Arab Revolt:
- Republicans have been good at fragilizing large corporations through bailouts, and Democrats have been good at fragilizing the government.
- 2022, Hans-Christoph Pape, Stephen L. Kates, Christian Hierholzer, Senior Trauma Patients: An Integrated Approach, page 34:
- Osteoporosis is a generalized skeletal disease classified as an osteopenic fragilizing osteopathy that predisposes individuals to a greater risk of fracture.