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
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
An unnerving and compelling series in its own right, it also offers a primer on how to Americanize a tale without ruining it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2015
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
I don't care that chef Eddie Americanizes recipes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2018
New Englanders have strong opinions, and one of them is that our regional, Americanized Chinese food is the best in the United States.
From Salon ● May 3, 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
Francisco and his wife, Lucia, left Mexico for a better life in the early 1900s, so it’s hard to imagine what they would make of their thoroughly Americanized descendants today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
“They wanted us to feel Americanized as much as possible,” Ravula said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
These men had been born and raised in Chicago, and though they still spoke the old tongue, their accents were Americanized.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
Too many are but little touched, or touched only in painful ways by the Americanizing process, especially the married women who stay in their homes.
From The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry
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