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Verb: detribalise  dee'trI-bu,lIz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: detribalize)
  1. Cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity
    "Throughout Africa, the policy has been to detribalise and to create big nation-states";
    - detribalize

Derived forms: detribalising, detribalises, detribalised

Type of: acculturate

Encyclopedia: Detribalise