Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - radicalization

see radicalize RADICALIZE (radicalizes, radicalizing, radicalized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'radicalise' If something radicalizes a process, situation, or person, it makes them more radical. He says the opposition will radicalize its demands if these conditions aren’t met. ...women radicalized by feminism... The trial was a radicalizing experience for her. VERB: V n, V-ed, V-ing • radicalization ...the radicalization of the conservative right. N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n