balkanize

See also: Balkanize

English

Verb

balkanize (third-person singular simple present balkanizes, present participle balkanizing, simple past and past participle balkanized)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanize
    • 2007, January 17, “Michael Slackman”, in Hangings Fuel Sectarian Split Across Mideast‎:
      And while political analysts and government officials in the region say the spreading Sunni disillusionment with Shiites and their backers in Iran will benefit Sunni-led governments and the United States, they and others worry that the tensions could start to balkanize the region as they have in Iraq itself.
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