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Definition of Decolonizing
1. decolonize [v] - See also: decolonize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolonizing
Literary usage of Decolonizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrations of the Literary History of the 18th Century: Consisting of edited by J. B. Nichols (1817)
"... from Barbadoes to Hudson's Bay, sending with each parcel pressing letters to
the several Governors against those decolonizing lesions of evil spirits; ..."
2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"An apparatus for decolonizing cane-juice by means of sulphurous acid vapor.
As the cane is crushed, the juice from the rollers passes by a trough into a ..."
3. Latin America Today by Pablo González Casanova (1993)
"... in some cases, a high decolonizing element both in French territories -
Guadaloupe, Martinique, and French Guayana - and in those with consolidating ..."
4. The Principles of Bacteriology: A Practical Manual for Students and Physicians by Alexander Crever Abbott (1921)
"... note the effect of different decolorizing agents; and ascertain whether the
organisms are capable of resisting the decolonizing effects of dilute acids. ..."
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