desocialize

present singular third person desocializes · participle present desocializing · participle past desocialized · past desocialized

1. transitiveTo take out of a social context; individualize.

   As we desocialize sex and sexuality as purely personal aspects of existence, we begin to see how sexuality is tied to a number of norms...

   2008, Jonathan Alexander, Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies

2. transitiveTo cause to withdraw from society.

   2004, Arden et al, The Angell Memorial Animal Hospital Book of Wellness and Preventive Care By twelve weeks puppies enter the juvenile stage, and it is at this stage that a negative experience can desocialize the pup.

3. transitiveTo cause to cease to be politically socialist.

   It was a painful process to desocialize and rehabilitate the Malian economy.

   1975, A P J Van Rensburg, Contemporary Leaders of Africa