say it: RAD-i-kuh-lahyz
radicalize is a verb meaning "make more radical in social or political outlook". It is pronounced /ˈɹædɪkəˌlaɪz/ — RAD-i-kuh-lahyz. It carries one recorded sense.
make more radical in social or political outlook
“Her work in the developing world radicalized her”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for radicalize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.