Americanize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Americanizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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Americanized,
past participle, past
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Americanizing
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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Americanizationnoun
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Americanizernoun
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de-Americanizeverb
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half-Americanizedadjective
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quasi-Americanizedadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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Americanizesimple
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Americanizessimple
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have Americanizedperfect
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has Americanizedperfect
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am Americanizingprogressive
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are Americanizingprogressive
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is Americanizingprogressive
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have been Americanizingperfect progressive
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has been Americanizingperfect progressive
Past
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Americanizedsimple
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had Americanizedperfect
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was Americanizingprogressive
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were Americanizingprogressive
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had been Americanizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of Americanize
Example Sentences
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And his character is complex in novel ways: The child of Chinese immigrants, Alexander was reared by people almost desperate to Americanize themselves, and he too has a hunger to be accepted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
But if there was one lesson learned that might well be etched on some memorial to the lost cause of Afghanistan, it might well be Milley’s summation: “Don’t Americanize the war,” Milley said.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021
For a time, the growing show business profile of the N.A.S.L. led the Cosmopolitan League to abandon its immigrant roots, Christopher said, and to order its teams to Americanize their names.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2017
As a part of their plan to Americanize the tribes, reformers sought legislation to replace this concept with the popular Euro-American notion of real estate ownership and self-reliance.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
“And what better way to Americanize the children than to buy a car!”
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
The series Americanizes the internationally successful 2012 novel “The Sandman” and its 2018 sequel “Lazarus” by Lars Kepler, the pen name of the wife-and-husband team of Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
I don't care that chef Eddie Americanizes recipes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2018
Part of the appeal of the neighborhood Americanized Mexican restaurant has long been that it offers a particularly accessible kind of abundance.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Figuring out which direction each of these pastors pulled—toward a Christian nation or an Americanized Christianity, or both—might have added fine print to Mr. Sutton’s catalog of believers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
Those fast-food kids were becoming Americanized, in all kinds of ways.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
Ahi led a double life as an Americanized disco producer, while also writing for his immigrant community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
I discovered later that her true name was Ruchel, a Yiddish name which her family Americanized to Rachel, which she in turn further changed to the even more American-sounding Ruth.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
Many Canadians despise him for Americanizing their game, but he devised a program to aid Canada-based teams when currency disparities handicapped them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
He was born in 1947 into a ruined, Americanizing Japan, and before he was out of his teens he was joining in happenings and performances with The Play, an Osaka-based collective.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
It broke several records on Spotify and YouTube, and opened more doors for Latin music to be integrated on pop radio without watering down or Americanizing its songs.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2018
But while he has sought a resolution of the Syrian civil war, Mattis in 2013 warned against Americanizing what would be a “very, very serious war”.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2016
Undoubtedly all this means "the Americanizing of Canada" industrially.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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