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

Derived forms: detribalized, detribalizes, detribalizing

Type of: acculturate

Encyclopedia: Detribalize