Americanize
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become American in character; assimilate to the customs and institutions of the United States.
had Americanized
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past perfectof Americanize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Outside and inside he had done his best to create something French out of the old-fashioned New York block house, but Cornelia Woodyard had Americanized his creation enough to make it intimate, livable.
From Together by Robert Herrick
Then, too, life in New York had Americanized my fellow-townspeople, modernized their tastes, broadened them out.
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
Foreigners ourselves, and mostly unable to speak English, we had Americanized the system of providing clothes for the American woman of moderate or humble means.
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
