germanize Meaning, Definition & Usage

Ger"man*ize transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Germanized ; present participle & verbal noun Germanizing
Definitions
  1. To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
Ger"man*ize intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To reason or write after the manner of the Germans.

Webster 1913