po·liti·cize politicizes politicizing politicized in BRIT, also use politicise If you politicize someone or something, you make them more interested in politics or more involved with politics. ideas which might politicize the labouring classes and cause them to question the status quo Some feminists had attempted to politicize personal life. + politicized po·liti·cized The data that's being used to fault American education is highly politicized. + politicization po·liti·ci·za·tion There has been increasing politicization of the civil service