Meanings
present singular third person propagandizes · participle present propagandizing · participle past propagandized · past propagandized
- intransitiveTo use or spread propaganda.
- transitiveTo tell propaganda to someone in an attempt to influence one's views.
After we'd managed to make ourselves comfortable in this garret, my new friends began to propagandize me. All they knew about me was that I was a student […]
1987, Barbara Alpern Engel, Clifford N. Rosenthal, Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar - transitiveTo use something or someone in propaganda purposes.
He propagandized this panacea with single-minded determination throughout the revolutionary period and even managed to establish a People's Bank for a short time before his arrest in 1849.
1989, Judith E. Zimmerman, Mid-Passage
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Proto-Indo-European*pro-
- Proto-Italic*pro-
- Latinprō̆-
- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂ǵ-
- Latinprōpāgō
- Latinprōpāgandus
- New Latinprōpāganda
- Englishpropaganda
- Englishpropagandize
From propaganda + -ize.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Slovak propagovať
- propagovaťTranslations
Spanish propagandear, propagandizar
- propagandearTranslations
- propagandizarTranslations
Cite this entry
propagandize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/propagandize
“propagandize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/propagandize. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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