outsegregate

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verb

To promote or follow a more segregationist policy than.

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Meanings

verboutsegregate (third-person singular simple present outsegregates, present participle outsegregating, simple past and past participle outsegregated)

present singular third person outsegregates · participle present outsegregating · participle past outsegregated · past outsegregated

  1. transitiveTo promote or follow a more segregationist policy than.

    These families tried to isolate their children from racial discrimination as much as possible by outsegregating the White segregationists.

    2005, F. Philip Rice, Kim Gale Dolgin, The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture, page 56
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    […] not all Chicago Negroes were exactly pining away for integration. Certainly the Black Muslims, with their passion for a Negro apartheid, were championing a separatist movement that practically outsegregated the segregationists.

    1968, Lionel Lokos, House Divided: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, page 216

Origin

From out- + segregate.

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APA

outsegregate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outsegregate

MLA

“outsegregate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outsegregate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outsegregate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outsegregate.

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