decreolize

especially British, de·cre·o·lise

[dee-kree-uh-lahyz]

verb (used with object)

Linguistics.

decreolized, decreolizing 

1. to modify (a creole language) in the direction of a standard form of the language on which most of the vocabulary of the creole is based.

Other Word Forms

• decreolization noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of decreolize¹

de- + creolize