fragilize

present singular third person fragilizes · participle present fragilizing · participle past fragilized · past fragilized · alternative fragilise

1. transitiveTo make fragile.

   It is a pluralist world, in which many forms of belief and unbelief jostle, and hence fragilize each other.

   2009, Charles Taylor, A Secular Age, page 531

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   Republicans have been good at fragilizing large corporations through bailouts, and Democrats have been good at fragilizing the government.

   2011, Council on Foreign Relations, The New Arab Revolt

   Osteoporosis is a generalized skeletal disease classified as an osteopenic fragilizing osteopathy that predisposes individuals to a greater risk of fracture.

   2022, Hans-Christoph Pape, Stephen L. Kates, Christian Hierholzer, Senior Trauma Patients: An Integrated Approach, page 34