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Aryanize

American  
[air-ee-uh-nahyz, air-yuh-, ar-] / ˈɛər i əˌnaɪz, ˈɛər jə-, ˈær- /
especially British, Aryanise

verb (used with object)

Aryanized, Aryanizing
  1. (in Nazi doctrine) to remove all non-Aryan persons from (office, business, etc.).


Aryanize British  
/ ˈɛərɪəˌnaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) (in Nazi ideology) to purge (politics and society) of all non-Aryan elements or people; make characteristically Aryan

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Aryanize

First recorded in 1855–60; Aryan + -ize


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Now, that same principle had been operative from the very dawn of the history of Aryanized India.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

The Mongolian nomads were, in fact, playing a role towards the Aryanized civilizations of Europe and Persia and India that the Aryans had played to the Ægean and Semitic civilizations ten or fifteen centuries before.

From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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