Anglify

[ang-gluh-fahy]

verb (used with object)

Anglified, Anglifying 

1. (sometimes lowercase),  to Anglicize.

Other Word Forms

• Anglification noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglify¹

An Americanism dating back to 1745–55; Angle + -ify

Example Sentences

Sudeikis encouraged the actors to “massage the text” so that it felt right for each of them, Dunster said, “whether that was to Anglify it, or Jamiefy it, whatever it needed.”

From New York Times

“When Jews took it up, they didn’t Anglify our music,” said Izzy Sanabria, who designed many album covers for Fania Records, a renowned salsa music label, and is its de facto historian.

From New York Times

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.

From Project Gutenberg

He only designed to "anglify" the French-Canadians by compulsion.

From Project Gutenberg