Meanings
verbdehistoricize (third-person singular simple present dehistoricizes, present participle dehistoricizing, simple past and past participle dehistoricized)
present singular third person dehistoricizes · participle present dehistoricizing · participle past dehistoricized · past dehistoricized
- transitiveTo separate or remove from history; to deprive of historical context.
Because the stunts disassociate these effects from their usual context, Jackass mimics state violence only to dehistoricize and depoliticize it.
2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment
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dehistoricize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dehistoricize
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“dehistoricize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dehistoricize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dehistoricize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dehistoricize.
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