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What is the verb for essential?

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essentialise
  1. Alternative form of essentialize
essentialize
  1. (transitive) To reduce to its essence.
  2. Examples:
    1. “They essentialize the twentieth-century gold standard for artistic value of every sort.”
      “To ignore this point is to essentialize the experiences of all women, regardless of race or other experience-defining features.”
      “It has also been described as a circulation of discourses that displace centers of power that tend to essentialize or fetishize latinidad.”
essentializes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of essentialize
essentialises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of essentialise
essentialised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of essentialise
  2. Examples:
    1. “In this paper, I illustrate the way one Aboriginal artist challenged what he perceived as an essentialised concept of Aboriginality, by rejecting rainbow serpent iconography.”
essentialized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of essentialize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Whatever ethnicity might be, the problem lies with its essentialized all-embracing interpretation, and this must be put aside.”
      “According to Said, orientalism allowed Europe to establish itself as the superior and the norm, which justified its dominance over the essentialized Orient.”
essentializing
  1. present participle of essentialize
  2. Examples:
    1. “One way to avoid any kind of sectarian essentializing leading to religious fanaticism is to read these texts in comparative and inclusive ways.”
      “Does not such a claim amount to essentializing the future, a move which is overly captive to the thought patterns of modernity?”
      “To his credit, Powell's objectivism prevented him from essentializing workers and scapegoating the labor force as the cause of the blue mold.”
essentialising
  1. present participle of essentialise
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