deradicalize

• deradicalise (UK)

de- +‎ radicalize

• IPA^(key): /diːˈɹædɪkəlaɪz/

deradicalize (third-person singular simple present deradicalizes, present participle deradicalizing, simple past and past participle deradicalized)

1. (transitive) To divest of radicalism; to normalize politically.
   • 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 267:

     [H]is successors […] clamped down and deradicalized, with the French Revolution providing excuse enough to drop further reform.

• deracialized