bipolarize
/baɪˈpoʊləraɪz/
verb
- To divide or separate into two opposing groups, opinions, or extremes.
- The election campaign served to bipolarize the country along political lines.
- Social media can bipolarize public opinion on controversial issues.
- The debate threatened to bipolarize the entire community into two hostile camps.
- To cause something to have two opposite poles or characteristics.
- The chemical reaction tends to bipolarize the molecules, creating positive and negative ends.
- The magnet's field will bipolarize the iron filings into two distinct clusters.
- In physics class, we learned how to bipolarize a simple electromagnet.