0 to make something or someone political, or more involved in or conscious of political matters:
1 to make an organization, individual, or activity political or more aware of political matters:
Law enforcement should not be politicized.
For one consequence of the holistic view of church and commonwealth was that religious issues were very easily politicized.
Some citizens do politicize daily life problems, but they are a minority.
It helped, by politicizing the unionists who were most severely subject to repression.
Clinical ethicists must politicize their work and become "ethical activists" (p. 77).
As a consequence, the making of city histories in museums is gradually becoming a more self-critical, politicized and democratic process.
Were there particular instances or examples of "politicizing" science that you felt were most striking or egregious?
I think it doesn't work very well when it's politicized as we see in some countries around the world today.
In the traditional historiography, it is often stated that these two developments politicized an otherwise 'unpolitical' local government.
