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Americanize   /əmˈɛrəkənˌaɪz/   Listen
Americanize

verb
(past & past part. americanizer; pres. part. americanizing)
1.
Make American in character.  Synonym: Americanise.
2.
Become American in character.  Synonym: Americanise.






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"Americanize" Quotes from Famous Books



... grammar-school girls, many of whom are of foreign parentage and tradition, are thus introduced to the American ideal of living. The school is thus establishing standards of equipment, of food, of service, of comfortable living, that tend to Americanize quite as much as the establishment of standards of speech, of business methods, or of civic duties. The work done in this school is typical of that prevailing in hundreds ...
— Vocational Guidance for Girls • Marguerite Stockman Dickson



Words linked to "Americanize" :   Americanization, alter, modify, change, Americanise, American



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