verb
- to make or become more radical in political or social views; to adopt or cause to adopt extreme positions
Usage: British spelling; third person singular present tense
Examples
- The professor’s inflammatory rhetoric radicalises his students.
- Social media often radicalises political discourse.
- Economic hardship sometimes radicalises entire communities.
- The movement gradually radicalises its members through propaganda.
- Isolation from mainstream society radicalises some individuals.
- The documentary shows how poverty radicalises young people.