problematize
English
Alternative forms
Verb
problematize (third-person singular simple present problematizes, present participle problematizing, simple past and past participle problematized)
- To make something into a problem.
- 2021, Cate Quinn, Black Widows, page 289:
- "If the mob are involved in building a casino," Tina says, "offing some guy who's problematizing their plans is nothing to them. […]
- To consider something as if it were a problem.
- (intransitive) To propose problems.
- 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The New Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Act II, Scene vi
- Hear him problematize.
Translations
to consider something as if it were a problem
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Portuguese
Verb
problematize
- inflection of problematizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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