radicalize
verb (used with object)
to make radical or more radical, as in politics.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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In effect, it was radicalizing the latter by using a very basic and low-risk tactic of the former.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2013