ghettoize

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transitive verb ghettoized, ghettoizing

  1. to restrict to a ghetto
  2. to make into a ghetto

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See ghettoize in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb ghet·to·ized, ghet·to·iz·ing, ghet·to·iz·es
  1. To set apart in or as if in a ghetto; isolate.
  2. To make into or similar to a ghetto: “He left a city ghettoized and strangled by highways and the auto” (New York).

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  • ghetˌto·i·zaˈtion (-ĭzāˈshən) noun
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