Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1832, "to make marginal notes," from marginal + -ize. The meaning "force into a position of powerlessness" attested by 1929. Related: Marginalized; marginalizing.
Wiktionary
alt. (context transitive English) To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit vb. (context transitive English) To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit
WordNet
v. relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people; "We must not marginalize the poor in our society" [syn: marginalise]
Usage examples of "marginalize".
But this process also marginalizes wisdom, which comes with age and tradition.
Commercial utopianism allows us to realize some of our values, but it marginalizes others.
On occasion we have seen birds from elsewhere fly in, but soon they drop into a marginalized segment and become ghostly.
Its magic for us is the magic that our culture has systematically marginalized in the rational, scientific, secular, and bureaucratic disenchantment of the world.
The text attempts manfully to marginalize the homoerotic element, but cannot quite control it.
Any repressed, oppressed, or otherwise marginalized context would show up, disguised, in the text, and the text was a testament to the repression, oppression, marginalization.
In short, reason that has become monological holds all nonreason at arm's length, marginalizes it, excludes it, dominates it, objectifies it, disinfects it with disgust.
I'd left her old and new homes right off the map, but I had a feeling this wasn't a consciousness-raising exercise in the marginalizing force of geographical representations.
It's a systematic marginalizing of populations, Glinda, that's what the Wizard's all about.
Two, I'm to handle any disruptions from outside sources-that means marginalizing this Daniel Jackson character.