"passivization" meaning in English

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          "text": "In contrast, it is difficult for a movement theory to selectively apply to some verbs and not all. The consequence for that approach has been to complicate the syntax of verbs which cannot passivize: It is proposed that they have a more complex syntax that doesn’t allow passivization.",
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        "(grammar) The process of rendering into the passive form."
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