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Westernize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To render something western in character. intransitive, transitive

    "Users on Chinese social media expressed anger that the Netflix adaptation Westernized aspects of the story, and said the show sought to demonize some of the Chinese characters."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of westernize. alt-of
  3. 3
    make western in character wordnet

Etymology

From western + -ize.

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