democratize

English

Alternative forms

• democratise

Etymology

From French démocratiser.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɒkɹətaɪz/

Verb

democratize (third-person singular simple present democratizes, present participle democratizing, simple past and past participle democratized)

1. (transitive) To make democratic.

Derived terms

• democratization

Translations

to make democratic

• Albanian: demokratizoj (sq)
• Arabic: مَقْرَطَ (maqraṭa), دَقْرَطَ (daqraṭa), دَمَقْرَطَ (damaqraṭa) (proscribed)
• Armenian: ռամկավարացնել (ṙamkavaracʻnel) (Western Armenian), ժողովրդավարացնել (hy) (žoġovrdavaracʻnel)
• Asturian: democratizar (ast)
• Azerbaijani: demokratikləşdirmək
• Belarusian: дэмакратызава́ць impf or pf (demakratyzavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: демократизи́рам impf or pf (demokratizíram)
• Catalan: democratitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民主化 (zh) (mínzhǔhuà)

• Czech: demokratizovat impf or pf
• Danish: demokratisere
• Dutch: democratiseren (nl)
• Estonian: demokratiseerima
• Finnish: kansanvaltaistaa (fi), demokratisoida (fi)
• French: démocratiser (fr)
• Galician: democratizar (gl)
• Georgian: გადემოკრატიულება (gademoḳraṭiuleba)
• German: demokratisieren (de)
• Greek: εκδημοκρατίζω (el) (ekdimokratízo)
• Hungarian: demokratizál (hu)
• Irish: daonlathaigh, déan daonlathach
• Italian: democratizzare (it)
• Japanese: 民主化する (ja) (みんしゅかする, minshuka suru)
• Korean: 민주화(民主化)하다 (minjuhwahada)
• Latvian: demokratizēt
• Lithuanian: demokratizuoti
• Macedonian: демократизи́ра impf or pf (demokratizíra)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ардчилах (mn) (ardčilax)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: demokratisere

• Occitan: democratizar
• Polish: demokratyzować (pl) impf, zdemokratyzować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: democratizar (pt)
• Romanian: a democratiza (ro)
• Russian: демократизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (demokratizírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: демократизи́рати impf or pf, демократизовати impf or pf

  Roman: demokratizírati (sh) impf or pf, demokratizovati impf or pf

• Slovak: demokratizovať impf or pf
• Slovene: demokratizirati impf or pf
• Spanish: democratizar (es)
• Swedish: demokratisera (sv)
• Turkish: demokratikleştirmek (tr)
• Turkmen: demokratiýalaşdyrmak
• Ukrainian: демократизува́ти impf or pf (demokratyzuváty)
• Uyghur: دېموكراتىيەلەشتۈرمەك (dëmokratiyeleshtürmek)
• Uzbek: demokratlashtirmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: dân chủ hoá (民主化)
• Yiddish: דעמאָקראַטיזירן (demokratizirn)

Anagrams

• octamerized

Galician

Verb

democratize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of democratizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

democratize

1. inflection of democratizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative