Polonize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make Polish; cause or force to take on ways, customs, viewpoints, etc., that are characteristically Polish.
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to alter (a word or phrase) so that it becomes Polish in form or character.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Polonize
1885–90; < Medieval Latin Polon ( ia ) Poland + -ize
Example Sentences
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But you still say that you do not want to Polonize any one?
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
She is the noblest type of Polish womanhood, and her memory lives on and on, in the soul of her race, as it were the personification of her sex Polonized.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
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