What does desemanticize mean?
Desemanticize means To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization..
Desemanticize
Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
Meaning
To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization..
Definitions by Sense
- To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization.
- (rare) To lose semantic content; to undergo desemanticization.
Example Sentences
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, […]
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Word Forms
- desemanticizes
- desemanticizing
- desemanticized
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The purposive meaning desemanticizes and a new marker is drafted in to reinforce the purposive meaning.
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