radicalise

See also: radicalisé

English

Etymology

From radical +‎ -ise.

Verb

radicalise (third-person singular simple present radicalises, present participle radicalising, simple past and past participle radicalised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of radicalize.
   • 1980, V[aidyanathapuram] R[ama] Krishna Iyer, Minorities, Civil Liberties, and Criminal Justice, New Delhi: People’s Publishing House, →OCLC, page 12:

     Let us dwell briefly on the threefold requisites for an equal association between the sexes for achieving socially-directed goals. At the threshold, mark you, this is part of a way by the weak against the strong; this is re-reading religion, re-writing literature and history, re-building economics and politics, and radicalising sex sociology. This is a grim battle, not won by stray queens and prime ministresses and fortunate women of letters of science. It is a massive campaign not carried on by sophisticated ‘hen conventions’ or ‘gentle ladies’ organisations.

   • 2017 May 28, Jamie Doward, Ian Cobain, Chris Stephen, and Ben Quinn, “How Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was radicalised by his links to Libya”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But whatever the truth, the fateful journey that Abedi made to the Manchester Arena last Monday started long ago. “He’s not been radicalised by Isis,” Rafiq said. “His life story is all about being radicalised from birth and then Isis cherrypicked him.”

   • 2021 February 24, Elias Visontay, “Far right 'exploiting' anger at lockdowns to radicalise wellness community, police say”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Rightwing extremist groups have “exploited” anger at Covid-19 lockdowns to radicalise Australians in wellness and alternative medical circles into adopting white supremacist ideologies, Victoria police have warned a parliamentary inquiry into extremism.

   • 2023 January 19, Stephen Reicher, “More conflict, more violence: that’s the future if the UK’s new anti-protest law is passed”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     History shows that attempts to suppress dissent through indiscriminate repression have precisely the opposite effect. Such an approach generally recruits more dissenters and radicalises their actions. It creates, rather than pre-empts, chaos.

Anagrams

• racialised

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: radicalisent, radicalises

Verb

radicalise

1. inflection of radicaliser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative