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desemanticize (三人称単数 現在形 desemanticizes, 現在分詞 desemanticizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 desemanticized)

1. To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization.
2. (まれに) To lose semantic content; to undergo desemanticization.
   • 2011, Michael T. Putnam, Studies on German-Language Islands, John Benjamins Publishing (→ISBN), page 406:

     The purposive meaning desemanticizes and a new marker is drafted in to reinforce the purposive meaning.

   • 2011, Jim Feist, Premodifiers in English: Their Structure and Significance, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 232:

     […] that of preceding and modifying another word, and in gaining the new grammatical meaning of modification. They 'desemanticise, in losing the descriptive meaning that head nouns have in descriptive use, […]