decolonize
/dee-kol-uh-nahyz/US // diˈkɒl əˌnaɪz //UK // (diːˈkɒləˌnaɪz) //
非殖民化,非殖民地化,非殖化,去殖民化
Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
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de·col·o·nized, de·col·o·niz·ing.
- : to release from the status of a colony.
- : to allow to become self-governing or independent.
v.无主动词 verb
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de·col·o·nized, de·col·o·niz·ing.
- : to free a colony to become self-governing or independent.
Examples
For “Other Leopards,” set in decolonizing Africa, you will have to follow what Emily Hyde describes as Denis Williams’ “jittery stream-of-consciousness style.”
Indeed, that would be a collective effort to decolonize chocolate and acknowledge the ancestral pathways critical to making the industry whole.
Pakistan, born in the scrabble to decolonize after World War II, has suffered from endless American and British meddling.
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