Frenchize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become more French; to make or become more like France, the French language, or French-speaking people.

    "But I shall not twist the English language out of all shape and comeliness; I shall not Germanize and Frenchize and Italianize; I shall express my ideas in the simplest possible words; I shall always choose the Saxon rather than the Norman; I shall endavor to write so that "he who runs may read.""

Synonyms

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gallicize

Example

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"But I shall not twist the English language out of all shape and comeliness; I shall not Germanize and Frenchize and Italianize; I shall express my ideas in the simplest possible words; I shall always choose the Saxon rather than the Norman; I shall endavor to write so that "he who runs may read.""

Etymology

From French + -ize.

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