Frenchize

"Frenchize" in a Sentence (4 examples)

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."

The French-Canadian does not Frenchize. In Canada, for three centuries, he has been hemmed in by English and Scotch colonists and he has never Frenchized any one. He comes from a stock to whom the thought is repugnant of making French out of any less fine material.

Resolved, that the government should "Fordize," or Kulturize, the necessarily large-scale occupations in a way that would more or less "French-ize" America; Resolved, that individuals not wait for the government to "Frenchize."

Mallory saw all of this as part of a giant plot of Quebec nationalists to seize control of the government and “Frenchize” Canada with the support of the “mother country” of France.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.