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Meaning of desemanticize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization.
  2. To lose semantic content; to undergo desemanticization.
    rare

Examples

“The purposive meaning desemanticizes and a new marker is drafted in to reinforce the purposive meaning.”
“[…] that of preceding and modifying another word, and in gaining the new grammatical meaning of modification. They desemanticise, in losing the descriptive meaning that head nouns have in descriptive use, […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

desemanticized desemanticizes desemanticizing desemantise desemantised desemantises

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