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Americanize   /əmˈɛrəkənˌaɪz/   Listen
Americanize

verb
(past & past part. americanizer; pres. part. americanizing)
1.
Make American in character.  Synonym: Americanise.
2.
Become American in character.  Synonym: Americanise.






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"Americanize" Quotes from Famous Books



... years, that the Pacific Ocean separates America from the lands and islands of Asia, and look upon it as a body of water connecting us with the bountiful East. The old theory was good enough for our home-building fathers, but is blighting to a generation aspiring to Americanize the globe. The genius of our nation should cause our ploughs and harrows to prepare the valley and delta of the Nile for tillage; be responsible for the whir of more of our agricultural machinery in the fields of India; locate ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield

... the program needs no modifications or special manipulation to "Americanize" its followers. It is inherently an Americanizing program. In Manhattan's crowded East Side, since 1912, when the first scout troop was founded there, thousands of boys have taken the Scout Oath and Law and followed its ...
— Educational Work of the Boy Scouts • Lorne W. Barclay



Words linked to "Americanize" :   Americanise, alter, modify, American, change, Americanization



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