deregionalize means to change something so that it is no longer regionally divided. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From de- + regionalize.
verb
- To change something so that it is no longer regionally divided.
- To remove the regional (local) characteristics of something.“Eugenics was the crucial vehicle for nationalizing and deregionalizing the stigmatypes of southern poor white trash. Previous chapters in this book aimed to track how particular words and phrases […] described, portrayed, and ultimately constructed poor white trash as a stigmatized and despised social group in the South […] However, there is little evidence before the end of Reconstruction that po”